Orion Magazine has announced its 2015 Book Award winners:
Non-fiction winner: Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life, by George Monbiot (University of Chicago Press),
Finalists:
- A Country Called Childhood, by Jay Griffiths (Counterpoint)
- The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt and Company) > See the EcoLit Books Review by Midge Raymond
- Windfall, by McKenzie Funk (The Penguin Press)
- Zoologies, by Alison Hawthorne Deming (Milkweed Editions) > See the EcoLit Books Review by JoeAnn Hart
Fiction winner: The Bees, by Laline Paull (Ecco Press)
Finalists:
- Divine Animal, by Scott Russell Sanders (Earth Works Publishing)
- Invisible Beasts, by Sharona Muir (Bellevue Literary Press) > See the EcoLit Books by Midge Raymond
- The Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique (Riverhead Books)
- Long Man, by Amy Greene (Alfred A. Knopf)
John is an award-winning author of stories, novels and plays. He is author of THE STANDING DEAD, coming in 2027. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead and co-author of the mystery Devils Island. He is editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program). More at JohnYunker.com.