The UAB Writers' Series will present the novelist Erin McGraw at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20 in the UAB Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

McGraw is the author of five books of fiction, most recently The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, STORY, Allure, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Good Housekeeping, The Gettysburg Review and other magazines and journals.