Synopsis
Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together a choir of established and emerging writers, giving voice to the complexities of hydraulic fracturing across the United States. During a time in which so much information is known about the pitfalls and perils of fracking, art is needed to move the public consciousness and national conversation towards better land practices. In the tradition of Wallace Stegner's This is Dinosaur, Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimble's Testimony, and Rick Bass and David James Duncan's The Heart of the Monster, Fracture braids together essays, poems, and fiction to help bring new understanding to the practice of fracking.
About the Author
Taylor Brorby received his M.A. in Liberal Studies from Hamline University in 2013, and is currently pursuing his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Taylor s work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Rock, Paper, Scissors, The Englewood Review of Books, the Northern Plains Ethics Journal, and many others. Also, his work is forthcoming in the anthology Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College.Taylor has been awarded grants from Hamline University, St. Olaf College, Iowa State University, and the North Dakota Humanities Council. He has held residencies at Holden Village, St. Olaf College, and St. John s University. He has been interviewed about his work as a writer and environmentalist on North Dakota Public Radio and National Public Radio.Taylor is currently writing Vespers 2014: A Vespers for Climate Change and his chapbook of poetry, Ruin: Elegies from the Bakken, is forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post, where he writes on education and environmentalism, a contributing editor for The EcoTheo Review, a contributing editor at Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies, a reviewer of books for The Englewood Review, of journals for Review Review, as well as book review editor at Orion Magazine.
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