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News ReleasesMaine Author, Jane Brox, To Speak At USM on September 27 August 31, 2007 Brunswick, Maine author Jane Brox will speak at 7 p.m., Thursday, September 27, in Room 423-424 of USM’s Glickman Family Library, Forest Avenue, Portland. Her free public talk, “The Particulars of Place,” is the first lecture in USM’s 07-08 American and New England Studies Lecture Series. For more information, please call 780-4920. Brox grew up on a farm in New England’s Merrimack Valley. Her first book, the award-winning “Here and Nowhere Else,” chronicles her return to the family farm. She is the author of “Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm” (2004, North Point Press, NY); “Five Thousand Days Like This One” (1999, Beacon Press, Boston), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and “Here and Nowhere Else,” winner of the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her essays have appeared in The Georgia Review and other journals and magazines, and have been selected for inclusion in many anthologies, including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and in 2005 she won the New England Book Award for Non-Fiction. This past spring she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her current writing project. She teaches nonfiction writing in the M.F.A. program at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., and lives in Brunswick, Maine. Editor’s Note: For an image of Brox’s book, “Here and Nowhere Else,” see http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0607releases/HNE.jpg. |
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