Leslie Patten has worked as a horticulturist, habitat specialist, and landscape designer. After moving to Wyoming, she has volunteered at the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West—preparing bird and mammal specimens and measuring wolf skulls for scientific research. Patten is the … Continue reading From the Desk of Leslie Patten: Searching for ‘One-Eye’
Lory Bedikian is the author of The Book of Lamenting, winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published in multiple journals, including Tin House, the Adroit Journal, the Los Angeles Review, and Gulf Coast. She … Continue reading From the Desk of Lory Bedikian: Jagadakeer
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 11-15. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year’s theme for UP Week is “Step UP.” This is meant to … Continue reading UP Week: WHERE does your press #StepUp?
Jacob Flaws is an assistant professor of history at Kean University. His latest book Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (Nebraska, 2024) was published this month. Have you ever visited a place that you felt was haunted? That basic … Continue reading From the Desk of Jacob Flaws: Spaces of Treblinka
Jerry Grillo is a longtime journalist and author of The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography. His work has appeared in Georgia Trend, Atlanta Magazine, Paste Magazine, Newsday, and jambands.com, among other publications. His latest book Big Cat: The Life of … Continue reading From the Desk of Jerry Grillo: Big Cat and the World Series
Elise Franklin is an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville. Her latest book Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France (Nebraska, 2024) was published this month. The latest title in the … Continue reading From the Desk of Elise Franklin: Disintegrating Empire
James Card lived in South Korea for twelve years working as a freelance journalist and fly-fishing guide. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, The Drake, and other publications. His book The Dawn … Continue reading From the Desk of James Card: On Warfare, Nature, and Fly-Fishing
Carol Bradley is the author of Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills (Wiley, 2010) and Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top (St. Martin’s Press, 2014). Her latest book … Continue reading From the Desk of Carol Bradley: On Hollywood Falling Horses
Sherrie Flick is a senior lecturer in the MFA and food studies programs at Chatham University and a freelance writer and editor. She received a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative … Continue reading From the Desk of Sherrie Flick: Beyond Replicating Place
Alice Beck Kehoe is a professor of anthropology emeritus at Marquette University. She is the author or editor of twenty-one books, including North America before the European Invasions; The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology; and Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a … Continue reading From the Desk of Alice Beck Kehoe: Truth and Power in American Archaeology
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