Photos: Nevada Humanities/Megan Berner.
We’re walking and talking! Join us for a new series of events combining nature and the humanities. Humanities in Nature is a nature walk series in collaboration with Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation that introduces northern Nevada residents to their outdoor environment and encourages us to explore and reimagine the outdoors through the lens of human connection and creation. Participants are guided by both a naturalist and a humanities expert to create a deeper connection between ecological education and stewardship and our connection to place.
At this walk, writer and poet Gayle Brandeis will lead the way and guide participants in learning about restoration - of the land and of ourselves. Registration is required and will open on Friday, April 22, 2022. Learn more and register at tmparksfoundation.org.
Support for this program comes in part from the City of Reno.
Gayle Brandeis is the author, most recently, of the memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis (Beacon Press), and the novel in poems, Many Restless Concerns (Black Lawrence Press), shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award. Earlier books include the poetry collection The Selfless Bliss of the Body (Finishing Line Press); the craft book Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne); and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won the PEN/Bellwether Prize judged by Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt BYR), chosen as a state-wide read in Wisconsin. Her essay collection Drawing Breath will be released by Overcup Press in 2023. Gayle's essays, poetry, and short fiction have been widely published in places such as The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, O (The Oprah Magazine), The Rumpus, Salon, and more. Her works have received numerous honors, including the Columbia Journal Nonfiction Award, a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2016, 2019, and 2020, the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award and the 2018 Multi Genre Maverick Writer Award. She was named A Writer Who Makes a Difference by The Writer Magazine, and served as Inlandia Literary Laureate from 2012-2014, focusing on bringing writing workshops to underserved communities. She teaches at Antioch University and Sierra Nevada University.