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Belle Boggs Reads at 2016 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference

belle boggsAuthor Belle Boggs read her short story “Deer Season” at the 2016 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Boggs is the author of Mattaponi Queen (Graywolf Press, 2010), a collection of linked stories set along Virginia’s Mattaponi River, and The Art of Waiting: on Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Graywolf Press, 2016). Mattaponi Queen was awarded the Bakeless Prize, the Library of Virginia Literary Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Boggs’s stories and essays have appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s, Orion, Glimmer Train, the Oxford American, Slate, Ecotone, and other publications. She teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.

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Craig Childs Reads at Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference

Craig ChildsAuthor Craig Childs read a piece of narrative non-fiction at the 2015 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Craig Childs writes about the relationships among humans, animals, landscape, and time. His stories come from visceral, personal experience, whether in the company of illicit artifact dealers or in deep wilderness. Childs’ dozen-plus critically acclaimed books include his most recent, Apocalyptic Planet, winner of the Orion Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award.

Childs’ work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, and Outside. A commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Childs lives in Western Colorado and teaches writing for both University of Alaska in Anchorage and Southern New Hampshire University.

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Ginger Strand Reads at Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference

Ginger StrandAuthor Ginger Strand read the first chapter of her latest book, The Brothers Vonnegut (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), at the 2015 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Ginger Strand is the author of a novel and three books of narrative nonfiction, and has published essays and fiction in Harper’s, the New York Times, OnEarth, Tin House, The Believer, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor, and more. A former fellow in the Behrman Center for the Humanities at Princeton, Ginger has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, the Eisenhower Foundation, and the American Antiquarian Society, as well as residency grants from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She lives in New York City and the Catskill Mountains.

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Strand began, “The Brothers Vonnegut opens in 1945—it’s the story of two brothers and as the book opens the older brother, Bernard, is the success story in the family—he’s a famous research chemist—and he’s working on helping to de-ice the American bomber planes that are flying on their bombing missions in Germany and this is very top secret work and it’s going to lead him into a huge joint corporate and military attempt to control the weather that took place in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s in America. This is all true. I’m going to read from the very opening of the book, which finds the other brother—the younger brother—Kurt, at this moment in time.”

 

 

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Pam Houston Reads at Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference

PamHoustonAuthor Pam Houston read her short story, “Maggie on the Road,” at the 2015 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Houston’s most recent book is Contents May Have Shifted, published in 2012.  She is also the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat; a novel, Sight Hound; and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me. Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the 2013 Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century.  She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, The Evil Companions Literary Award, and multiple teaching awards. She directs the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers, teaches in the Institute of American Arts Low Residency MFA Program, is professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and teaches at numerous writers’ conferences both here and abroad.

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