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is the author of four nonfiction books and numerous essays and articles that have appeared in Yankee, Country Journal, Boston Globe Magazine, New England Monthly, Alaska and Harvard Magazine, among other periodicals. His journalism has chiefly concerned matters of natural history, ecology, and environmental affairs. His book “Raven’s Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight” was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year in 1992 by the New York Public Library, and “Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman” won the 2002 New Hampshire Writers’ Project Nonfiction Prize. His most recent book, widely and favorably reviewed, is “The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire” (2005), due out in paperback this spring.
Carey holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard College and a master’s degree in educational administration from Lesley College. After a varied career as cannery worker, commercial fisherman, farm hand, museum curatorial assistant, bookstore clerk, market researcher, actor, musician and teacher, he is currently director of Publications for the Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H., a freelance journalist and vice president of the New Hampshire Writers Project board of trustees.
, a former high school English teacher, teaches fiction. He has written short stories, essays, plays, reviews, a screenplay, and two novels, “Plowing Up a Snake” and “The Suburbs of Heaven,” which Barnes and Noble selected for its Discover Great New Writers series. He co-edited with John Cawelti “Meteor in the Madhouse,” the posthumous novellas of Leon Forrest.
Drown has studied at Macalester College, the University of Washington and in the original low-residency M.F.A. program at Goddard College, where he studied under John Irving, Richard Rhodes and Richard Ford. He has taught creative writing at New England College and now teaches workshops for the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and businesses, and is an editor, actor and ghost writer. He has received fiction writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire Arts Council.
, an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington, specializes in memoir writing, the personal essay and nonfiction essays about the natural world. Work from her first collection of essays, “All The Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman’s Notebook,” has won two Pushcart Prizes and has been widely excerpted and anthologized.
Legler’s scholarly work on American women nature writers and ecocriticism has appeared in journals and anthologies including Studies in the Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, “Reading Under the Sign of Nature” and “Writing the Environment.” Her most recent book, from Milkweed Editions in the fall of 2005, is a collection of linked essays about Antarctica, where she spent six months in 1997 as a fellow with the National Science Foundation’s Artists and Writers Program. Her creative nonfiction about Antarctica has already appeared in such venues as Orion , The Women’s Review of Books, and The Georgia Review.She has been a guest at the Arkansas Book Festival, the Telluride Council on the Arts, the University of Mississippi and a number of other colleges and libraries across the country. She came to SNHU after having taught creative writing and fiction through Fairfield University and the Colorado Colleges Consortium.
, grew up near Boston and graduated from Syracuse University, then worked as a reporter in northern California. In 1989, she attended Officer Training School and was commissioned into the Air Force as a second lieutenant. In 1991, she went to Saudi Arabia with Desert Storm and spent the next five years flying missions out of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, providing air supplies to the Kurds in northern Iraq and monitoring the Iraqi no-fly zone. These experiences formed the basis of her first novel, “The Art of Uncontrolled Flight” (HarperCollins, 2005), a BookSense pick that is being adapted into a screenplay.
Ponders holds an M.S. in international relations and an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her second novel, “The Last Blue Mile” (HarperCollins, 2007), has been hailed by the Washington Post, Playgirl, Entertainment Weekly and Alma Magazine, among others.
, author of the novels “Snow Island” and “Evening Ferry.” Part of a planned trilogy, the novels are set on a fictional New England island and chronicle the lives of two generations of two island families and the impact of the wars of the 20th century on the island community. Praised by the Boston Globe as “luminous and moving,” “Snow Island” was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title, a Borders Original Voices title and a Booksense selection. “Evening Ferry,” also a Booksense selection, was described as “gracefully written” by Publishes Weekly.
Towler has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the New Hampshire Council on the Arts. She was awarded the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy and served as the school’s writer-in-residence. She has published poetry, short stories and a series of interviews with prominent writers and poets in The Sun Magazine, The Worcester Review, The Tusculum Review, Mars Hill Review and In Posse Review.
Towler earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, an M.A. in writing at Johns Hopkins and an M.A. in English literature at Middlebury College. She has taught creative writing to students of all ages and works as a freelance writer.