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"Writing Nature" Focus: Faculty Faculty publications available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore
Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of three books of nonfiction: Temporary Homelands(Mercury House, 1994; Picador USA, 1996), The Edges of the Civilized World (Picador USA, 1998), which was a finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed Editions 2001, Credo Series: Notable American Writers on Nature, Community and the Writer Life). She has also published three volumes of poetry and edited Poetry of the West: A Columbia Anthology and, with Lauret E. Savoy, The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Her writing has won many awards including two NEA grants, a Pushcart Prize, awards from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the National Writer's Voice Project, and the Bayer Award in science writing from Creative Nonfiction for the essay “Poetry and Science: A View from the Divide.” She has served on the faculty of Prague Summer Seminars, Writers at Work, Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, Art of the Wild, The Orion Society's Forgotten Language Tour, the Sitka Symposium on Human Values and the Written Word, and numerous other writing programs. In 1997 she was Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai'i in M?noa. She currently is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and lives near Aqua Caliente Hill in Tucson.
Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism including Eve (1997), Calendars (2003), The Encyclopedia of Scotland (2004), The Complete Poems of Louise Labé (2004), The Body of Poetry (2005), and Among the Goddesses: An Epic (2009). Her music, art, and theater collaborations include the opera Marina (American Opera Projects, 2003). Her poetry has been featured for radio and TV audiences including Voice of America and Def Poetry Jam, and she has performed her poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and Spain. Annie is a Literary Advisor to the Language of Conservation project organized by Poets House. She recently received a grant to travel to Montana and work closely with a biologist studying wolves in their natural habitat in preparation for a new book of poetry centering on wolves and their place in the ecosystem. Educated at Yale (BA), The University of Houston (MFA), and Stanford (PhD), Annie is a Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine and Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program. Her website is at www.anniefinch.com.
Barbara Hurd is the author of three books of creative nonfiction: Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming 2008), Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling through the Dark (Houghton Mifflin Company), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination (Beacon). She has also published a collection of poetry, The Singer’s Temple (Bright Hill Press). Barbara’s essays and poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Best American Essays 2001, Best American Essays 1999, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Nimrod, New Letters, Audubon, and others. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, four Maryland Individual Artist Awards for Poetry, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, and finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and the PEN/Jerard Award. She teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
Debra Marquart is a professor of English at Iowa State University and the Coordinator of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment. Her books include two poetry collections—Everything’s a Verb and From Sweetness—and a short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, which draws on her experiences as a road musician in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Debra continues to perform with her jazz-poetry, rhythm & blues project, The Bone People, with whom she released two CDs: Orange Parade and A Regular Dervish. Her latest book, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, A Memoir, was published by Counterpoint Books in 2006 and was awarded the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She is currently at work on a novel set in Greece, titled The Olive Harvest.
Timothy Seibles is the author of five books of poetry: Body Moves, Hurdy-Gurdy, Kerosene, Ten Miles an Hour, and Hammerlock. His work has been featured in Red Brick Review, New Letters, Dark Eros, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Artful Dodge and the anthology In Search of Color Everywhere, and he is the recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Born in Philadelphia, he earned a BA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and an M.F.A. from Vermont College. He taught high school English for ten years and worked as Writing Coordinator of the Fine Arts Work Center. He has taught at Cave Canem and is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University.
Baron Wormser's memoir The Road Washes Out in Spring (University of New England Press, 2006) has been widely reviewed. He is also the author of a book of short stories, The Poetry of Life (Cavankerry, 2007), and seven books of poetry: The White Words (Houghton Mifflin), Good Trembling (Houghton Mifflin), Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (Paris Review Editions),When (Sarabande Books), Mulroney and Others (Sarabande Books), Subject Matter (Sarabande Books), and Carthage (The Illuminated Sea Press). He is also the co-author of two books about teaching poetry: Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Day (Heinemann). Baron’s poems and nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of journals including The Paris Review, The New Republic, Harper’s, and Poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Baron is director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and the Frost Place Seminar at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire.
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