FARMINGTON – David Gessner—acclaimed American essayist, memoirist, nature writer, editor and cartoonist—will be the first reader of the 2014-15 Visiting Writers Series 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 25, in The Landing in the University of Maine at Farmington Student Center.
This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.
Gessner is the author of nine books, including, “The Tarball Chronicles,” which won the 2012 Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment and the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment’s award for best book of creative writing in 2011 and 2012. He also is the author of “Wallace Stegner and the American West,” “Return of the Osprey,” “Sick of Nature,” “My Green Manifesto” and the forthcoming “All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey.”
His essays have been published in numerous magazines, including Outside magazine and the New York Times Magazine and have won the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading.
He recently appeared on MSNBC’s The Cycle to offer his take on the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy.
Gessner taught environmental writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard and is currently a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he founded the award-winning literary journal of place, Ecotone.
This event is sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.
