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"Writing Nature": A Stonecoast Focus
The Stonecoast MFA program has long maintained an awareness of the importance of the natural world. In fact, our physical home, the Stone House, was originally willed to the University of Southern Maine with the provision that it be used to support environmentally-based education. As of Summer 2009, the Stonecoast MFA program is proud to announce a new, cross-genre focus in writing about the natural world: "Writing Nature." The "Writing Nature" focus offers students the opportunity to participate in one class focusing on environmental literature each residency. In addition, a special writing workshop will be offered each summer with a focus on writing nature. In honor of the launch of the Writing Nature focus, Stonecoast is proud to add to its faculty renowned writer Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of such books as The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World and The Edges of the Civilized World: A Journey into Nature and Culture. Deming joins Stonecoast faculty Barbara Hurd, Debra Marquart, Tim Seibles, Baron Wormser, and director Annie Finch to form a core of creative writing faculty deeply involved in writing about the natural world. In the powerful natural setting of the Stone House, surrounded by organic farms, heather gardens, the rocky coast, and Wolfe Neck State Park, students choosing this focus will have the opportunity to work with these writers and others to develop new ways of conceiving and exploring the natural world in their writing. |
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