Environmental Poetry & Prose Reading, featuring three alums of the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Fellowship (Joe Wilkins, Corrie Williamson, & Justin Gardiner). Tuesday, July 11th, 5:30-6:30 PM, book signing and general merriment to follow.

Joe Wilkins is the author of a novel, Fall Back Down When I Die, praised as “remarkable and unforgettable” in a starred review at Booklist. A finalist for the First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Book Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the 2020 High Plains Book Award. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, winner of a 2014 GLCA New Writers Award, and four collections of poetry, including Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Born and raised in eastern Montana, Wilkins lives with his family in McMinnville, Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University.

Corrie Williamson is the author of two books of poems, The River Where You Forgot My Name (SIU Press 2019), a finalist for the Montana Book Award, and Sweet Husk, winner of the 2014 Perugia Press Prize. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Ecotone, AGNI, and many other venues, and is forthcoming in Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. She is at work on a third manuscript, Your Mother's Bear Gun. She lives in Montana, where she manages community relations for a conservation organization. 

Justin Gardiner is the author three books—Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic, published as part of the Crux Literary Nonfiction Series by the University of Georgia Press; the poetry collection Naming the Lifeboat from Main Street Rag; and the book-length lyric essay Small Altars, forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Justin's essays and poetry have appeared in journals that include Blackbird, The Missouri Review, Quarterly West, and Catamaran. He is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University, as well as the nonfiction editor of The Southern Humanities Review.