Northwestern Events Calendar

May
10
2016

9th Annual Spring Writers' Festival- Sharman Apt Russell Reading

When: Tuesday, May 10, 2016
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT

Where: Hinman Auditorium, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Kathy Daniels   (847) 491-7294

Group: English Department

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Sharman Apt Russell will read from her work as part of the 9th Annual Writers' Festival. 

I am pleased to be considered in the book world as a nature/science writer. At the same time, I have relied on Joseph Campbell’s advice to follow my bliss. I write about what engages me, what I can learn from, what seems important. My topics include citizen science, living in place, archaeology, flowers, butterflies, hunger, and pantheism. My recent nonfiction Diary of a Citizen Scientist (Oregon State University Press, 2014) won the WILLA Award and was listed by The Guardian as a top ten nature book of 2014. My next book will build on ideas from Hunger: An Unnatural History (Basic Books, 2005) and return to the world of food aid and childhood malnutrition. Tentatively titled Within Our Grasp, this is a story of recent paradigm shifts that could both end the misery of chronic malnutrition and slow population growth. Other awards include a Rockefeller Fellowship, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Writers at Work Fellowship, and the Henry Joseph Jackson Award. My work has been translated into a dozen languages--the thrill and befuddlement of seeing your words in Chinese ideograms. I have thrice served as the PEN West judge for their annual award in best children’s literature. In fiction, my historical fantasy YA Teresa of the New World won the Arizona Author’s Award and my science fiction Knocking on Heaven’s Door, set in a Paleoterrific future, was released this January, 2016. I love to write. Writing is how I move through the world, how I live, how and when I become my best self. Really, there’s no turning back now.

*Events in conjunction with the Evanston Literary Festival: https://evanstonlit.wordpress.com/

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