POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam will welcome guest author Anne Panning, who will read from her novel "Butter" Tuesday, March 15 at 4 p.m.

The free reading will be offered in the Fireside Lounge, located on the second floor of the Barrington Student Union.

This event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

Panning has published two short story collections, including "Super America," which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice.

Her latest novel, "Butter," is a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of small-town Minnesota during the 1970s and told from the perspective of an 11-year-old girl, Iris, who learns from her parents that she is adopted.

Panning has also published a book of short stories, "The Price of Eggs" (Coffeehouse Press), as well as having her short fiction and nonfiction featured in outlets such as the Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West and Five Points. Four of her essays have been listed as "Notable" in the "Best American Essays" series.