The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment has announced the finalists for their bi-annual book awards:
Creative Award Finalists:
Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
by Andrew Furman (memoir/essays)
The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World
by Julian Hoffman (creative nonfiction)
Dark. Sweet.
by Linda Hogan (poetry)
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History
by Richard J. King (creative nonfiction)
Invasives
by Brandon Krieg (poetry)
Subduction Zone
by Emily McGiffin (poetry)
Scholarly Award Finalists:
Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
by Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World
by Timothy Morton
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
by Karen Raber
Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
by Nicole Seymour
Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
edited by François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Michel Granger
John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the eco-mystery Devils Island, forthcoming in 2024. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead. Co-founder of Ashland Creek Press and editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program).
