{"id":15607,"date":"2013-01-14T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=15607"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:48:40","slug":"writers-read-jan-31-katie-fallon-writes-gently-on-her-environmental-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/writers-read-jan-31-katie-fallon-writes-gently-on-her-environmental-passions\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Read Jan. 31: Katie Fallon Writes Gently on Her Environmental Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Fallon, an outdoor enthusiast and bird lover who authored <em>Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird<\/em> (Ruka Press, 2011), kicks off the spring \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read Dinner and Author series<\/a>,\u201d on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 5:30 p.m., in Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s (EMU) Campus Center room 105.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve tickets online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/writers-read\/\">emu.edu\/langlit\/writers-read\/<\/a> or by calling the language &amp; literature department at 540-432-4168 by Friday, Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cerulean Blues<\/em>, Fallon\u2019s first book, was recently named a finalist for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernenvironment.org\/\">Southern Environmental Law Center<\/a>\u2019s Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. Her essay \u201cHill of the Sacred Eagles\u201d was selected as a finalist in the <a href=\"http:\/\/terrain.org\/\">Terrain.org<\/a> 2011 essay contest.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has appeared in a variety of other magazines and literary journals, including <em>The Bark, Fourth Genre, Ecotone, River Teeth, Isotope, Fourth River, Appalachian Heritage, Now &amp; Then, Pine Mountain Sand &amp; Gravel, Rivendell, <\/em>and<em> The New River Gorge Adventure Guide<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Katie writes with a beautiful mix of passion and gentleness, whether she is minutely describing the habits of an endangered songbird or her reactions as a professor to the tragedy at Virginia Tech,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/beachyk\">Kirsten Beachy<\/a>, assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/majors\/english\/\">English<\/a> at EMU.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon has taught creative writing at West Virginia University and Virginia Tech. She co-founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accawv.org\/\">Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia<\/a>, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the region&#8217;s birds through research, education and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<h3>More information<\/h3>\n<p>Several of the author\u2019s books will be available for purchase. A book signing and short question-and-answer session with the author will follow her reading. Sign-language interpretation is available upon request.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 General admission, $15<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 EMU students with a full meal plan, $5<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All other students, $7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Fallon, an outdoor enthusiast and bird lover who authored Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), kicks off the spring \u201cWriters Read Dinner and <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/writers-read-jan-31-katie-fallon-writes-gently-on-her-environmental-passions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Writers Read Jan. 31: Katie Fallon Writes Gently on Her Environmental Passions<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":15626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5583,14184,356,5623],"tags":[9279,6374],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-15607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-campus-guests","category-language-and-literature","category-special-programs","tag-kirsten-beachy","tag-writers-read"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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