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Jennifer Sahn is editor of Orion magazine, winner of the 2004 Independent Press Award for General Excellence. Articles she has edited have won John Burroughs Essay Awards, Pushcart Prizes, and have been reprinted in the Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction. She has been on the editorial staff of Orion for the past 15 years, during which time she also worked closely with the education and outreach programs of The Orion Society. Her writing has been published in a variety of print venues, and she has served as the editor for several book projects.
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Linda Lear’s biography, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, is an exploration of the life and times of an extraordinary woman who was inspired by nature. It received the 2007 Lakeland Book of the Year Award., and Lear is the first American author to win the prestigious prize. She is also the author of the acclaimed biography, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature as well as numerous articles on Potter and Carson, and she is the editor of the anthology, Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. She has written the introduction to the new edition of The Sense of Wonder, the preface to the Penguin edition of Carson’s The Edge of the Sea and the afterward for their edition of Silent Spring. A professor of environmental history, Lear is an enthusiastic horticulturist and collector of botanical art. |
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David Gessner is the author of six books of literary nonfiction, including Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature, and Soaring with Fidel. His essay, “Learning to Surf,” won the John Burroughs award for best nature essay of 2006. His essays have appeared on NPR’s “This I Believe” series and in many magazines and journals including The New York Times, Georgia Review, American Scholar, Orion, The Harvard Review, and the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, for which his essay “Benediction” was selected. He has taught environmental writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, and is currently a Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he also edits the literary journal of place, Ecotone. |
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Richard Borden joined the faculty of College of the Atlantic in 1979 and served as the College's academic dean for 20 years. He is the first recipient of the Rachel Carson Chair. He is also past-president-and currently executive director-of the Society for Human Ecology. |
