OP-EDS
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NPR Guest Commentary on the Ogallala |
"Living on Earth" (January 25, 2012) |
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"Can the 2012 Farm Bill Save the Ogallala Aquifer?" |
Grist.org (December 29, 2011) |
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"Running Dry on the Great Plains" |
New York Times (December 1, 2011) |
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"When Voting, Listen to the Grass" |
Writers on the Range syndicated column (Oct. 26, 2010) |
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"Easy Pickens?" |
USA Today. (September 17, 2008) |
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"Bleeding Land, Heating Earth for a Fill-up" |
Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column (July 2008) |
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"The Environmentalist Within" |
Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column (July 2007) |
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"Turn Off the Spigots" |
Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column (May 2005) |
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BOOK |
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One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter |
Mid-List Press (2000) |
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ESSAYS |
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"Out in the Cold" |
High Country News (December 8, 2008) |
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"She Poured Out Her Own" |
Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works, Ed. Laura Pritchett, Richard Knight, & Jeff Lee. Boulder: Johnson Books (2007) (Reprinted in The Land Report Spring 2009) |
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"Daytime Sleep" |
Flint Hills Review 7 (2002) |
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"Night in the Mojave" |
Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2001) |
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"Disappearances" |
Stories from Where We Live: The Great North American Prairie, Ed. Sara St. Antoine, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions (2001) |
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"The Gleaners" |
Northern Lights12 (Summer 1997) |
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"At Forty-Five" |
The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (Jan. 14, 1996) (Reprinted in Woven on the Wind, Houghton Mifflin, 2001) |
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"Inside Spaces" |
Northern Lights 14 (Winter 2000) |
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"In the Wake of a Cowboy" |
Northern Lights14 (Winter 1999) |
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"Nick's Door" |
Between Mothers and Sons, Ed. Patricia Stevens, New York: Scribners (1999) |
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"Reaching Down" |
The Fourth Genre 1 (Winter 1999) |
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"Housewives, Fieldhusbands" |
Connecting, Ed. Lee Gutkind. New York: Tarcher (1998) |
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"A Girlhood" |
The Iowa Review 25 (Fall 1995) |
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"House Dreams" |
North Dakota Quarterly 62 (Winter 1994-95) |
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"Beacons" |
Single Mother's Companion, Ed. Marsha R. Leslie. Seattle: Seal Press (1994) |
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"Marrying Money" |
The Missouri Review 18 (Spring 1994) |
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"Dirt" |
Apalachee Quarterly 40/41(Spring 1994) |
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"Distances" |
Midwest Living 4 (October 1990) |
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"Thanksgiving on the Plains" |
Iowa Woman 11 (Autumn 1991) |
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"Dad" |
Plainswoman10(November 1986) |
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"A Guy Could" |
Azorean Express 2 (1985) (Reprinted in Leaning into the Wind,
Houghton Mifflin, 1997) |
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SHORT STORIES |
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"Blossoming" |
Sistersong 2 (Winter 1995) |
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"Night Ride" |
Farmer's Market 10 (Spring/Summer 1993) |
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"You Ain't No Cowboy" |
California Horse Review 22 (March & April, 1985) (Reprinted in Las Vegas Review Journal, Nov.16, 1986) |
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INTERVIEWS
National Council of Teachers "Life in the Trenches: Perspectives from Five Writing Programs," Colors of of English a Different Horse: Rethinking How We Teach Creative Writing, Ed. Wendy Bishop,
National Council of Teachers of English (1994)
Western Literature Association "Western Autobiography and Memoir: A Panel of Writers, Western American Literature Special Issue (Summer 2002)
ARTICLES
"An Ex-Farmgirl Goes to the Prairie Festival" The Land Report (Fall 2010) (Reprinted at "The Genius of the Grass" at Bigpictureagriculture.com and (same title) at Thisliveleyearth.com)
"Colorado Sustainability Road Trip" The Furrow (Summer 2006)
"A Mustang Remuda for the Seven U-Bar" Las Vegas Review Journal (February 22, 1987) (Reprinted in Seven U-Bar" Horse and Rider, 1987)
GUEST BLOG POSTS
"Slow Money Offers Ways to Invest in Slow Food" Bigpictureagriculture.com (October 5, 2011) and as "Slow Money Gathering Coming up" Thislivelyearth.com (October 6, 2011)
FILM
Television: The Enchanted Mirror Julene Bair, Producer and Co-Director (1981)
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EDUCATION
M.A. in Nonfiction August 1993, The University of Iowa
M.F.A. in Fiction August 1992, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
B. A. in English May 1988, The University of Iowa
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TEACHING
University of Iowa 1988-1993, Teaching Assistant: Rhetoric, Expository Writing
University of Wyoming 1993-1996, Lecturer: Literature, Writing
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Resident, Brush Creek Ranch Arts Foundation 2011
Top Hand Award, Adult Essay Nonfiction, Colorado Authors' League, 2009
Notable Essay of 2008, Best American Essays
Mesa Refuge Resident, 2007
Jentel Resident, 2005
Ucross Foundation Fellow, 2004
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, 2004l
Finalist, 2002 Glasgow Price for Creative Nonfiction
2001 Women Writing the West WILLA award, Essay/Memoir Category
Wyoming Arts Council 2001 Warren Adler Award for "Best Short Story Written in Wyoming"
Finalist, 2001 Mountain and Plains Booksellers Competition, Memoir Category
Editorial Board, Northern Lights, 1999-2002
1998 Mid-List Press Nonfiction Book Contest Creative Nonfiction Award
Bakeless Scholar, 1999 Bread Loaf Conference
Honorable Mention, 1998 Alligator Juniper Nonfiction Contest
1997 Neltje Blanchan Award for Writing Inspired by Nature, Wyoming Arts Council
Notable Essay of 1994, Best American Essays
First runner-up, Missouri Review Essay Contest, 1994
Finalist, Iowa Woman Essay Contest, 1994
Finalist, New Letters Essay Contest, 1994, 1995, & 1998
Judge: Owen Wister Review Essay Contest, 1995 & 1996; Wyoming Arts Council Individual Artists Grants in Literature, 1994; Wyoming and Utah Arts Councils Artists in the Schools, 1994; Wyoming Writers Nonfiction Category, 1994
Finalist, Missouri Review Essay Contest, 1991
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Iowa, 1990
Special Writers' Workshop/Midwest Living Contest Winner, 1990
Scholarship, Edwin Ford Piper Award, University of Iowa, 1990
Scholarship, Writers at Work Conference, Park City, Utah, 1990
