Writing and the Environment

Charles Fishman is a former metro and national reporter for the [i]Washington Post[/i] and was a reporter and editor at the [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i] and the [i]News & Observer[/i] in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has won numerous awards, including three times receiving UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious award in business journalism. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and attended Harvard University. [b]Melissa Lamberton[/b] is a poet, journalist and naturalist from Tucson, Arizona. Her writing focuses primarily on western water issues, including the legal rights of rivers. She is interested in translating the complex scientific language of a changing natural world into compelling prose for the public. She has worked as a writer for The Water Resources Research Center and The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, both in Arizona. Lamberton is a candidate in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment and a communications graduate research assistant at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.