Jennifer Price, Nationally Acclaimed Writer on Nature and Culture, to Give Reading and Discussion at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Jennifer Price, author and environmental historian, will give a reading and discussion titled "13 Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." on Nov. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library, on the third floor of Smith Hall, at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk will be preceded by a reception at 4 p.m. in Moran Lounge, on the fourth floor of Smith Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

Price will read from her forthcoming book on nature in Los Angeles, also titled 13 Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A., and discuss nature writing, environmental history and urban environmentalism.

Price is the author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (Basic Books, 2000). She has been published in the anthologies Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (W.W. Norton & Company, 1996), Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Greater Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2002), and the Nature of Nature: New Essays from America’s Finest Writers on Nature (Harvest Books, 1995), as well as in L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Audubon, and The New York Times.

She is a 2005-6 Guggenheim Fellow and a two-time NEH Fellow, and has been a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women since 1998. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University and currently lives in Venice Beach, California.

The events are sponsored by the English department’s Creative Writing Program and the Environmental Studies Program.