September 4, 2009

BCU to Host John T. Price in Presentation of Naturalist Essays

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s Center for Prairie Studies and the Department of English will host author John T. Price at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 10, in the Meis Recital Hall in Heelan Hall on the Briar Cliff campus. 

Price’s reading will feature excerpts from his book Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, a memoir of awakening to the kinships with animals, people and places that define and sustain a life spent close to home.

The author’s book earned the 2009 Readers’ Choice Award from Orion Magazine and was a Midwest Booksellers Association pick for April 2008. His personal essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Orion, In Brief, Organization and Environment, North Dakota Quarterly, Echoes, The Florida Review, The Christian Science Monitor and Best American Spiritual Writing 2000.

Price was awarded a 2004-2005 fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts and was nominated in 1998 for the Pushcart Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where he teaches English and creative writing. Price received a Ph.D. in English and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and currently resides in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 24 states and four countries.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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