Meet award winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt, the featured author for Whidbey Reads 2012, at three locations this week.

Her first visit will be on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island, 20103 Highway 525, Freeland.

On Thursday, April 19, Haupt will be at the Coupeville Library at 2 p.m., then at the Oak Harbor Library at 7 p.m.

Haupt is the author of “Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness,” the Whidbey Reads book for 2012.  Whidbey Reads is a Whidbey Island-wide program offering a variety of free activities corresponding with the chosen book.

Book sales and signing will take place after Haupt’s presentation.

These free library programs are funded by Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation, the Whidbey Island Friends of the Library groups, Whidbey Book Groups, Walmart and Whidbey Island Bank.

For more information, visit www.sno-isle.org or call 675-5115.