Writing and the Environment
Charles Fishman
Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013 at 9:00 am – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Join Charles Fishman, author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, for an informal discussion about science writing and writing about the environment. Charles Fishman is an award-winning investigative and magazine journalist who has spent the last twenty years trying to get inside, understand and explain important organizations, from NASA to Tupperware to Wal-Mart. Since 1996 he has been a senior writer at Fast Company magazine. He is also the author of The Walmart Effect. He will discuss the process of researching and writing The Big Thirst. Melissa Lamberton will moderate the discussion. She is a candidate in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment and a communications graduate research assistant at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.Charles Fishman is a former metro and national reporter for the Washington Post and was a reporter and editor at the Orlando Sentinel and the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has won numerous awards, including three times receiving UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious award in business journalism. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and attended Harvard University.
Melissa Lamberton is a poet, journalist and naturalist from Tucson, Arizona. Her writing focuses primarily on western water issues, including the legal rights of rivers. She is interested in translating the complex scientific language of a changing natural world into compelling prose for the public. She has worked as a writer for The Water Resources Research Center and The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, both in Arizona. Lamberton is a candidate in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment and a communications graduate research assistant at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
Cosponsored By:
- College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
- College of Engineering
- Iowa Humanities
- MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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