Amy Weldon, an Alabama native, is professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She is the author of The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World (Cascade Books, 2018), The Writer’s Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel (Bowen Press Books, 2019).
Amy Weldon
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Stillicide
Stillicide: A Novel Cynan Jones Catapult, 2020. $15.95, 192 pages. How can writers describe our strange world as it is, and as it is becoming? Right now, Texans are frozen Continue reading
Review
Dictionary of the Undoing
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. $15, 192 pages. FROZEN between climate crisis and political stasis, our current moment seems too large for any of our usual devices to grasp. Yet in Continue reading
Review
The Yellow House
Grove Atlantic, 2019. $26, 384 pages. IN A RECENT New York Times podcast interview, Sarah Broom reflected that in the era of climate upheaval, we’re all living with an inheritance of Continue reading
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The Seabird’s Cry
Henry Holy & Co., 2018. $32, 416 pages. FULMAR, puffin, kittiwake, gull, guillemot, cormorant and shag, shearwater, gannet, great auk “and its cousin razorbill,” albatross. The Seabird’s Cry accompanies a dozen Continue reading
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Gaze Upon This World
An update from the author: I’m back in Alabama, taking the dogs out on an early Sunday morning. Long grass soaks my boots with dew. The light is pearly, the day’s Continue reading