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BEND, Ore. - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks will join the faculty of Oregon State University-Cascades in June as a Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. The residency session takes place from June 9-19.

The Australian-born Brooks is an author and journalist who spent 11 years as a correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, where her beats focused on some of the world's most troubled areas, including Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East.

Students in the OSU-Cascades creative writing program embark on long-distance and individualized courses of study with faculty author mentors, and join fellow students for two 10-day residences each year at Caldera Arts Center outside of Sister, Ore.  Distinguished writers are invited to join the residencies and guide and nurture apprentice writers.

In addition to her journalism background, Brooks is an accomplished author whose fiction debut, "Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague," was published in 10 countries and was a 2001 Notable Book of the Year for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.

Her second novel, "March," earned Brooks the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her third book, "People of the Book," became an instant New York Times bestseller. Her most recent novel is "Caleb's Crossing."

While in Central Oregon, Brooks will also participate in the Deschutes Public Library Foundation's Author! Author! literary series, speaking at Bend High School on June 19.