The Story of The Land: How Literature Confronts the Climate Crisis
April 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Story of The Land: How Literature Confronts the Climate Crisis
in partnership with Orion Magazine, Literary Cleveland, and Mac’s Backs
How does language shape our relationship with the land? What is literature’s role in the future of our planet?
Join Literary Cleveland and Orion Magazine for a discussion with local writers about how fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can shift cultural perception about the environment, reconsider our relationship to nature, and galvanize us to address the climate crisis. Presented as part of Climate and Health Month in Cuyahoga County.
Books will be available for purchase from Mac’s Backs. While supplies last. Free. Registration required.https://givebutter.com/IPMJbW
Deborah Fleming is a novelist, poet, scholar, and essayist. Her latest collection of essays Ghosts of an Old Forest: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage is scheduled to be released later in April. The essays reflection on Ohio’s natural and cultural history as inspired by her farm. She also received acclaim for Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape (2019) which won the PEN-America Diamonstein/Spielvogel Art of the Essay Award in 2020.
Alison Stine is a novelist and journalist. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her second novel Trashlands was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and her third novel Dust was published by St. Martin’s Press in December 2024. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she works as the Climate Justice Senior Editor at NPQ.
Jon Wlasiuk is a professor, writer, and native of Ohio. His book An Alternative History of Cleveland was released in October 2024. In it, he explores how nature and culture are intertwined throughout the city and region.
