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 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).
