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Leslie Carol Roberts Nature Writer/Essayist/Subversive Historian

Leslie Carol Roberts

Biography Leslie Carol Roberts, author of The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica, (Nebraska, 2008) was the first Fulbright Fellow in Antarctic Studies in the world and has delivered talks and papers on her interdisciplinary work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, the New Zealand Studies Association (London) as well as to scientific groups and at universities in the U.S. and abroad. Roberts, MFA, Iowa; MA, Canterbury, has written hundreds of articles and essays for magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, including the Bellevue Literary Review, the Iowa Review online, the Bangkok Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2009, she will be the distinguished writer in residence at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California, and she is currently an adjunct professor in the MFA programs in writing and graduate design at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

Upcoming Works

  • The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica (Nebraska, 2008)

Favorite Authors

  • Lydia Davis; Gretel Ehrlich; Jim Galvin; Tolstoy; Thoreau; Mary Roach; George Orwell; Maurice Blanchot; Frank Arthur Worsley; John Berger; Julian Barnes; Keri Hulme; Elizabeth Jolley; Kazuo Ishigiro; Basho; Sei Shonagan.

Relationship

  • Married.

Family

  • Two children.

Causes I Support

  • Environmental causes of all stripes

University Affiliation

  • Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts; MFA, University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

Publishers

  • University of Nebraska Press

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