Luke Wallin
Professor of English
Senior Research Associate, The Center for Policy Analysis
MFA University of Iowa
MA University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MA University of Alabama
BA University of Mississippi
Specializations: fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, writing for children, conservation writing, science journalism, language and culture, literature of the American South, international short stories, and songwriting
Contact
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Office Location: Mobile Unit 1, Room 4
Office Phone: (508) 999-8393
E-mail address: lwallin@umassd.edu
Bio: Luke Wallin is a Mississippi writer and musician with a strong interest in conservation work. He holds an MFA from Iowa, as well as grad degrees in Philosophy and Regional Planning. He has written eight award-winning novels for young adults and adults, songs for radio, television and film, and published extensively on conservation writing.
His awards include a Fulbright to University College Dublin, Best Books selections by the New York Public Library and the American Library Association, a recommendation on the Smithsonian Institution's Critical Anthropology website, a recording for the blind of his novel Ceremony of the Panther, by the Library of Congress, and his story collection was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award.
At UMass Dartmouth since 1988, Luke's recent grad courses include Writing for Children, Scientific and Technical Journalism, and Thesis Research. Recent undergrad courses include Advanced Fiction Workshop, Advanced Nonfiction Workshop, Writing and Culture, The Modern Short Story, Southern American Literature, Intermediate Composition: Writing about Nature and Culture. A Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Analysis for the past 10 years, Luke works on environmental policy.
Current projects include a book, Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture, to be published by the Center for Policy Analysis, fall 2006; Luke's next book project is called Wild Cousins: A Family's Adventures in Plant Conservation; this will be the subject of his research and writing during the spring of 2007, on his sabbatical leave. In 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers of Holland and New York brought out an anthology, Nature and Culture in Cross-Cultural Perspective, co-edited by Luke and Anne Buttimer, chair of Geography at UC Dublin. Luke's contribution is on the rhetoric of the conservationist John Muir. Since 2000 Luke has produced five CDs of his original songs, one CD of his original children's songs, and two storytelling CDs: one a memoir of growing up in Mississippi, and the other of some of his short stories. Recent work appears in the anthology Far from Home (2004), the anthology High Horse (2005), and the fall 2005 issue of The Louisville Review.
For some Luke Wallin fiction, nonfiction and music, visit lukewallin.com.
