Exploration, Empire and Environmental Justice

[b]Elizabeth Bradfield[/b] is also the author of Interpretive Work, which won the Audre Lorde Award. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships from Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Program, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and elsewhere. In 2005 Bradfield founded Broadsided Press. [i]Approaching Ice[/i] was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. The book conveys the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach this inhospitable region. [b]Sherwin Bitsui[/b] is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii, Bitter Water Clan, born for the Tl'izilani, Many Goats Clan. His work explores the tensions between the worlds of nature and man as well as the challenge Native Americans face in reconciling an inherited history of lore and spirit with a postmodern civilization. Bitsui's many honors include a 2011 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a 2011 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award. His book [i]Flood Song[/i] received a 2010 PEN Open Book Award and an American Book Award. [b]Geetha Iyer[/b] was born in India, grew up in the United Arab Emirates, and moved to the United States to study biology. She has since become an MFA student at Iowa State University's Creative Writing & Environment program. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with a bent toward place-based and science writing. Her first publication is the recipient of a Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction. [url=http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/creative_writing/mfa/visiting-writers-series/9th-annual-symposium-on-wildness-wilderness-the/]The Future of Water[/url] is a series of invited lectures, creative readings, interdisciplinary panel discussions and a documentary film about the secret life and turbulent future of the world’s fresh and salt water supplies.