About

Kurt Caswell is a writer, and an assistant professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University.

Contact

Contact Kurt via email at:
kurt.caswell@gmail.com

Copyright © 2009
by Kurt Caswell

Publications

Books

In the Sun's House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation. San Antonio: Trinity University Press,
    2009. Order a copy today

An Inside Passage. Winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. Lincoln: University of
    Nebraska Press, 2009. Order a copy today

To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community and Nature. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Kurt
    Caswell, Susan Leigh Tomlinson & Diane Hueter Warner, editors. Lubbock: Texas Tech University
    Press, 2010. Order a copy today


Articles and Essays in Anthologies

“Four Mountains.” To Everything on Earth. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Eds. Kurt Caswell, Susan
    Tomlinson, Diane Warner. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010.

“Wild Man at Iouzan.” Telling it Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine 2003-2008. Edited by Peter
    Anderson. Pueblo: Pilgrimage Press, 2009.

“Reflective Voices: Constructing Meaning in the USjApanLINK Project.” Electronic Networks: Crossing
    Boundaries/Creating Communities
. Portsmouth: Boynton Cook Publishers, 1999. (Co-authored with
    Douglas E. Wood.)

“A Place to Begin.” Stories in the Land. Great Barrington: The Orion Society, 1998.

“Making Connections.” The Nearness of You: Students & Teachers Writing On-line. New York: Teachers
    & Writers Collaborative, 1996. (Co-authored with Douglas E. Wood.)


Articles and Essays

“Looking Across the Red River, Reaching Over the Plains.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and
    Environment
.  2010. Forthcoming.

“What Makes a Pet a Pet?” Orion. March/April, 2010.

“Bella Jordanian.” Matter. 12, 2009.

“The Totem Meal in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and
    Environment
. 15.2, 2008.

“An Inside Passage.” Matter. 10, 2007.

“The Best Thing about Marriage is Divorce.” Ninth Letter. Fall/Winter, 2007.

“Hunger at the Mountain.” Janus Head. Winter/Spring, 2007.

“Banaue Tercet,” Matter. 9, 2006.

“Wild Man at Iouzan.” Pilgrimage. 31.3, 2006.

“This is Borrego.” Unbound Press. Fall, 2006.

“Waiting for Wolves.” IDAHO Magazine. July, 2006.

“A Shepherd’s Life.” IDAHO Magazine. March, 2006.

“Life after Death.” Orion. January/February, 2005.

“Encounter at Chitose River.” Potomac Review. Spring/Summer, 2004.

“California Rental.” Isotope. Spring, 2004.

“Letter to a Young Girl at Summer’s End.” Northern Lights. Spring, 2003.

“Fawn.” Northern Lights. Winter, 2001.

“Still Minding the Sun.” English Journal. May, 2001.

“Chado: the Way of Tea.” West Wind Review. Spring, 2000.

“Working Together.” English Journal. September, 1998.

“A Matter for Heron.” Boise Magazine. Fall, 1998.

“Tea.” Left Bank. 1992.

 
Book Reviews

West with the Rise. By James Barilla. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 16.1,
    2009. 

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. By Paul Theroux. Mountain Gazette. June, 2009.

The World Without Us. By Alan Weisman. Mountain Gazette. April, 2008.

Home Ground. Edited by Barry Lopez & Debra Gwartney. Mountain Gazette. September, 2007.

Gilgamesh. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. Mountain Gazette. December, 2006.

Trawler. By Redmond O’Hanlon. Mountain Gazette. June, 2006.

First Church of the Higher Elevations. By Peter Anderson. Mountain Gazette. February, 2006.

The Hopes of Snakes. By Lisa Couturier. Mountain Gazette. January, 2006.

Nature Noir. By Jordan Fisher Smith. Mountain Gazette. June, 2005.

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