Man Killed by Pheasant
John Price
Friday, 14 Mar 2008 at 3:10 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
John Price is the author of Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands and recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He will be discussing his new book Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships. His essays have appeared in Orion, Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, The Best Spiritual Writing 2000 (Harper), In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton), Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Organization and Environment, and Healing: 20 Prominent Authors Write About Inspirational Moments of Achieving Health and Gaining Insight (Tarcher/Putnam). John Price is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He holds a PhD in English and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.Cosponsored By:
- Creative Writing Program
- English
- Natural Resource Ecology and Management
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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