Author C.L. Rawlins to Give Public Reading Thursday |
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Feb. 2, 1999 -- Laramie native C.L. Rawlins, author of two books about the Wyoming wilderness and a new collection of poetry, will read from his works at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Albany County Public Library.
A writer of poetry, essays, nonfiction, and fiction, Rawlins teaches three spring-semester writing courses through the University of Wyoming Department of English Visiting Writer Series.
Rawlins has taught workshops in sites ranging from university classrooms to homeless shelters, wrote book reviews and articles for publications such as "High Country News" and "The Bloomsbury Review," and edited scientific manuals. He has worked at jobs that included cowboy, forest ranger, firefighter, range foreman, range rider and field hydrologist.
The material for Rawlins' first nonfiction book, "Sky's Witness," published in 1993, was gathered during a year of rigorous journeys into the Wind River Range to monitor air pollution. His 1996 natural history, "Broken Country: Mountains and Memory," is based on diaries that Rawlins kept in 1973 while he watched over a herd of sheep in the high country.
Rawlins was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University and has won two Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowships and the Blanhan Memorial Award.
For more information, call the UW Department of English at (307) 766-6453.
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 1999
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