George Looney, distinguished professor of creative writing and English at Penn State Behrend, will read from his new books of fiction and poetry on Jan. 25 in the Metzgar Center. The reading, which begins at 6 p.m., is free and open to the public.

Looney will read from “The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible,” a new collection of poetry that won the Cider Press Review Editor’s Poetry Prize. He also will read from “The Visibility of Things Long Submerged,” which won the BOE Editions Short Fiction Award.

Looney’s work has been published in The Southern Review, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner and other publications. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and a $10,000 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

In addition to his teaching at Penn State Behrend, Looney serves as editor-in-chief of Lake Effect, the college’s international literary journal.

To learn more about Looney’s reading and other literary events at Behrend, including the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series, visit behrend.psu.edu/readings.