Angela Pelster

Angela Pelster's most recent book Limber (Sarabande Books 2014) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award in Nonfiction. Limber is a collection of lyric essays loosely based around the subject of trees, but touches on topics as varied as nuclear disaster, the science of rot, lunar landings, the evolution of trees and how to love the world. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Hotel Amerika, Granta, Seneca Review, Fourth Genre and The Gettysburg Review amongst others. Her children’s novel The Curious Adventures of India Sophia (River Books, 2005) won the Golden Eagle Children’s Choice award. She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at Towson University.