Kinship of Rivers: Readings by Wang Ping & Rick Bass

Date/Time:	Monday, 08 Apr 2013 at 7:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Diversity Lectures Live Green
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Writer and poet Wang Ping grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. Her Kinship of Rivers project focuses on the destructive effects of China's globalization and modernization on natural and cultural landscapes. Rick Bass is the author of more than twenty books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West. Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination Series

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Wang Ping's books include two collections of poetry, The Magic Whip and Of Flesh & Spirit; a novel, Foreign Devil; and two fiction collections, American Visa and The Last Communist Virgin. She attended Beijing University, earned her PhD from New York University and now teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Author and environmentalist Rick Bass is a Texan by birth. He worked as a gas and oil geologist in Mississippi after earning a degree from Utah State University. His career as an author grew out of a pastime of writing short stories during his lunch breaks. He now lives in the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies. His 2002 collection, The Hermit's Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.