The Ocean County College Foundation is excited to welcome award-winning writer Jamaica Kincaid to the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts at 11 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 24. The event, part of the Blauvelt Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.

“Join us for a conversation with one of the most highly-acclaimed writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries,” the foundation encourages. “Kincaid’s essays, stories and novels address such universal themes as family relationships, coming of age and establishing one’s personal identity.