Researching & Reporting Complex Environmental Stories
Speaker:
A Conversation with Dan Fagin
03 Mar 2015
12:00 PM
Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Join Dan Fagin, author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, for an informal discussion about science writing and writing about the environment. Fagin is an award-winning investigative and scientific journalist who directs New York University's graduate program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting. His book Toms River won the the 2014 Pulitzer for General Nonfiction and the National Academies Science Book Award. Kelly Slivka, a graduate student in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment, will moderate the discussion.
Kelly Slivka is a former Pearl Hogrefe Fellow in Creative Writing at Iowa State, and she served as the managing editor of the online literary journal [i]Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment.[/i] Slivka completed an MA in science journalism at New York University, where she spent much of her time at sea surveying marine life in the Atlantic Ocean.