Gretchen Legler
| Title | Professor Creative Writing |
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| Telephone | 207.778.7182 |
| gretchen.legler@maine.edu | |
| Bio | Gretchen Legler’s environmentally-focused nonfiction includes On The Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station Antarctica and All The Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman’s Notebook. Her third book of essays, about farming in rural Maine, is forthcoming from Trinity University Press. Her essays have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and journals including Orion, the Georgia Review, Gifts of the Wild, A Different Angle, Isle, Matter, and Brevity. Her scholarly work in ecocriticism has appeared in venues including Eco-Man and the Polar Journal. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program Fellowship to Antarctica and a Fulbright Teaching and Research Fellowship to the Himalayan Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan. Her writing has received honors including the Association for Literature and Environment environmental creative writing award and the Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she earned a Master’s of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, where her focus was spirituality and the environment. Writer’s Website: gretchenlegler.com Degrees
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