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Todd Davis (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) teaches creative writing, American literature, and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. He is the author of collections of poetry including Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, and Ripe. His poetry has been featured on the radio by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac and by Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry. His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor's Prize, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. Visit Todd online.
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Justin Ralls (Visiting Musician) is a composer, conductor, and writer, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, who believes in the transformative and communal power of music. Tree Ride, a piece for large orchestra inspired by conservationist John Muir, recently won the James Highsmith Composition Award, receiving its premiere by the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra in the Fall of 2013. In addition, Ralls’ works have been performed by a variety of orchestras, soloists, and ensembles both nationally and internationally. He has personally conducted his work on numerous national and international stages. Visit Justin online.
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Kathleen Caprario traded the concrete canyons of the New York/New Jersey Metro Area for the real canyons and broad skies of the Pacific NW in the late 1970’s. She is an artist who has firmly rooted her practice in landscape, identity and the relationship of self to nature as well as an instructor at Oregon State University, Lane Community College and a stand-up comedian. She recently wrote and produced a short film based on her comedy and life, “Mourning After” (19:47), in conjunction with the Shaggy Dog Project and the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA), Eugene which was premiered at the non-juried Short Film Corner at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, France (2014). Kathleen Caprario exhibits her work regionally and nationally, and she received an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 1989. Artist residences at the Graves’ Foundation (2014, 2009), Playa at Summer Lake (2011), the Jentel Foundation (2007) and the Ucross Foundation (1985), as well as living and working with Aboriginal children in Central Australia (2010) have informed and continue to inspire her work. Visit Kathleen here.
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David Gessner (Blue River Fellow) is a writer, editor, and cartoonist. His books include All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West; Sick of Nature; and Return of the Osprey. Gessner has published essays in many magazines, including Outside Magazine and the New York Times Magazine, and he has won the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading. Visit David online.
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Paul Miller (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a composer, multimedia artist, and author. Miller first rose to worldwide fame as hip-hop turntablist "DJ Spooky," and is now a sought-after lecturer and performer at prestigious venues, arts institutions, and universities. He is known for his genre-bending art, catalogue of music, and work in social justice. Miller is a National Geographic Young Explorer, executive editor of Origin Magazine, and founder of the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, a sustainable arts center on the island of Vanuatu. Visit Paul online.
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John Bates (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is the author of seven books on the Northwoods and Upper Midwest, and a contributor to four others. He has worked as a state forest naturalist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and owns Trails North, a naturalist guide service. He also conducts outdoor classes for Nicolet College, the University of Wisconsin Extension, and the North Lakeland Discovery Center. For twenty years he has written a biweekly column, "A Northwoods Almanac" for the Lakeland Times in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Visit John online.
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T. Geronimo Johnson (Blue River Fellow) is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Johnson has taught writing at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The Prague Summer Program, San Quentin, and elsewhere. His first novel, Hold it ‘til it Hurts, was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award. Welcome to Braggsville, his second novel, follows four UC Berkeley students who stage a protest during a Civil War reenactment in the heart of Georgia. Visit Geronimo online.
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Mary Burns (Long-Term Ecoligcal Reflections) expresses her love of northern woodlands and waters in her weavings and writings. Mary's first novel Heartwood is a fantasy/natural history novel for young adults. An award-winning weaver, she weaves custom designed hand-woven rugs and wall pieces. Mary also creates tapestries and felted work that reflect the hues and patterns of the natural world. Visit Mary online.
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Gretel Van Wieren (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University where her courses focus on religion, ethics, and the environment. She is author of the book, Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration. Van Wieren is a participant in the Values Roundtable of the New Academy for Nature and Culture, an informal coalition of scholars who have come together to explore a new theory of values for environmental thinking. Visit Gretel online.
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