Tamora Pierce, an author of young-adult fiction, will lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 30, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Pierce is the author of The Song of the Lioness quartet, The Immortals, The Circle of Magic, The Trickster series and the Beka Cooper series, among others.

As part of her visit to Hamilton she will also conduct a workshop/lunch with creative writing and English students.

The lecture is sponsored by the Emerson Literary Society with funding from Hamilton’s Student Activities and the Kirkland Endowment.