DEBRA GWARTNEY: President's Writers-in-Residence Series, March 21 - 24
Debra Gwartney is the author of the memoir, Live Through This, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2009, and soon to be featured in People magazine and on Good Morning America. The book is related to the story of her relationship with her daughters broadcast on This American Life in 2002.
Debra is a member of the nonfiction writing
faculty at Portland State University in Oregon, and is co-editor, with
Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape,
published in 2006 by Trinity University Press. Her short stories,
personal narratives, essays and articles have appeared in numerous
magazines and journals. Upcoming publications include a memoir in Triquarterly, an essay in Modern Bride magazine, an essay in Hallmark Magazine, a profile in Best Life magazine, and a “Modern Love” essay in The New York Times.
Debra is a former reporter for The Oregonian, and was a nonfiction
scholar at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She has received
fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts, the
Hedgebrook Writers’ Colony, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the American
Antiquarian Society.
BARRY LOPEZ: President's Writers-in-Residence Series, March 21 - 24
Barry Lopez is an essayist, author, and short-story writer, and has
traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world. He is
the author of Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, Of Wolves and Men,
a National Book Award finalist for which he received the John Burroughs
and Christopher medals, and eight works of fiction, including Light Action in the Caribbean, Field Notes, and Resistance. His essays are collected in two books, Crossing Open Ground and About This Life. He contributes regularly to Granta, The Georgia Review, Orion, Outside, The Paris Review, Manoa and other publications. His work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Best American Essays, Best Spiritual Writing, and the “best” collections from National Geographic, Outside, The Georgia Review and The Paris Review. His most recent book is Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape,
a reader's dictionary of regional landscape terms, which he edited with
Debra Gwartney. Lopez is a recipient of the Award in Literature from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Hay Medal,
Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundation fellowships,
Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and other honors. In 2004 he
was elected a Fellow of The Explorers Club
