Ginger Strand
Photo: Orianna Riley
Ginger Strand grew up in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Her fiction and essays have appeared in many places, including Harper’s, The Believer, Orion, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Swink, Raritan, The New England Review, and Carolina Quarterly. She has received residency grants from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society, as well as a Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She lives in New York City, where she teaches environmental criticism at Fordham. Her spring 2008 book is Inventing Niagara, a cultural history of natural wonder at America’s waterfall. She is also the author of Flight, a novel.
Articles
Beautiful Ruination
A down-and-out steel town looks for a different future through embracing collapse and decay.
The Poetry of Power
When it comes to small hydro, environmentalists are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Plus EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: A Small-Hydro Road Trip.
The Crying Indian
The scandalous story of the aluminum can, brought to you by ad executives masquerading as environmentalists.
A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn
A New York dance troupe secretly used an abandoned urban reservoir as their studio.
What’s the Use of Pets?
In a bazaar that offers everything imaginable (and then some) for pets, you could forget why we domesticated them in the first place.
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