Science and Sensibility Talk and Reading
"On the Fecundity of Limits: Readings and Remarks"
Dr. Barbara Hurd, Frostburg State University
Thursday, Nov. 5 from 7-9:30 p.m. in Wolfe Hall Room 1205
Barbara Hurd is a noted writer and poet whose essays are reflections inspired by her experiences in natural environments.
Hurd is the author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008); Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003); Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (2001), and more.
Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including Best American Essays, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion, Audubon, and others. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction and winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award and Pushcart Prizes in 2004 and 2007, Hurd teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD, and in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
This is a free, public event.