Thursday, September 08, 2011

David Gessner, associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will read at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 15 in Kenan Hall 1111.

David Gessner is the author of eight books of nonfiction, including, most recently, the Tarball Chronicles, describing the environmental fallout of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and My Green Manifesto, which The Boston Globe reported was recently purchased by President Obama’s family.

Gessner’s essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Onearth, The Georgia Review, The American Scholar, Orion, The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine and The Harvard Review. His essay “Benediction” was selected for the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Gessner won the 2007 John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay.

Gessner is associate professor of nonfiction in UNCW’s Department of Creative Writing, ranked third in the nation for nonfiction by Poets & Writers magazine in 2011. He is also the founding editor of Ecotone, UNCW’s acclaimed national literary journal.

Upcoming Events
• Writers Week, with keynote address by distinguished visiting writer-in-residence in fiction Steve Almond, Nov. 14–18, various locations. Check www.uncw.edu/writers for a forthcoming detailed schedule.

All events are free and open to the public. Receptions sponsored by the department and book signings sponsored by Pomegranate Books will follow readings.

For further information on UNCW’s programs and events in creative writing, please contact the Department of Creative Writing at 910.962.7063.