Acclaimed authors Maile Meloy and Andrew Winer will read from their books Half in Love and The Color Midnight Made, respectively, at the first public reading in a new series titled Writers. Irvine. Live!, sponsored by the UC Irvine School of Humanities and the UCI Bookstore. Both first-time authors are recent graduates of UCI's graduate creative writing program. Meloy and Winer will sign copies of their books, which will be on sale at the reading. The event is free and open to the public.

Half in Love's smart, surprising and emotional stories have already earned first-time author Meloy devoted admirers. Some of the collection of 14 stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Best American Voices. Winer's book, The Color of Midnight Made, is an engaging first novel and a coming-of-age story that is wholly original, according to a Washington Post review.