Books
Books
Barbara Hurd
“Just as to be sloppy in a cave is to risk falling or damaging ancient formations, to be sloppy on the page is to risk an insight’s evaporating in mid-sentence. For most writers, discoveries are elusive and more likely to stay that way unless meticulously chosen words and graceful phrasing converge in a sentence that might get closer to saying what’s more true.”
Books
The Epilogues
Available Spring 2021
The Epilogues – the stories that begin as the story of the human tenancy on Earth draws to a close – is a transcendently beautiful, compassionate, and wise reflection on the human condition. This is the book I have been waiting for all these bewildering years; the first book I have found that offers beauty to match the wonder of the vanishing world, comfort equal to our anguish, and wisdom worthy of the questions we face. The Epilogues comes as a gift of grace.
– Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth’s Wild Music
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Biography
Biography
“An essay “not bound to its origins can become something that matters less for the situation it represents and more for what it—tough, resilient, lenslike—does, which is to rearrange the past and make possible a larger question, something perhaps about complicity, maybe forgiveness.”
Biography
Barbara Hurd teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Books
The Epilogues (2021)
Listening to the Savage / River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (2016)
Tidal Rhythms: Change and Resilience at the Edge of the Sea (with photographer Stephen Strom, 2016)
Stepping into the Same River Twice (with artist Patricia Hilton) 2013
Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008)
Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003)
The Singer's Temple (2003)
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (2001)
Objects in this Mirror (1994)
ESSAYS
Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including
Best American Essays 1999
Best American Essays 2001
The Yale Review
The Georgia Review
Orion, Audubon and others
Awards & Fellowships
2015 Guggenheim Fellowship
NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction
Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award
Three Pushcart Prizes
Five Maryland State Arts Council Awards
Selected Interviews
“I’ll not attempt to make much of a dead clam’s ascendancy, except to offer it as further evidence that the world is full of both beauty and breakage. If there’s an illusionless behest on the beach today, it’s this: how to live well, here, among the delicacies and ruins, the necessary insufficiencies of mystery and loss.”
