'Seeing Nature through a Native American Language'
Friday, May 10, 2013 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Joseph Bruchac is the author of more than 120 books for adults and children, including the best-selling Keepers of the
Earth series (with Michael Caduto), which uses traditional American Indian stories to teach science and now has over a million copies in print. Founder and Executive Director of the Greenfield Review
Literary Center and The Greenfield Review Press, he has also edited a number of highly praised anthologies of contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back,
Breaking Silence which won an American Book Award. His work as an educator includes three years of volunteer teaching in Ghana, West Africa, and twelve years at Skidmore College, where he taught
English and directed a college program inside a maximum security prison. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Union Institute of Ohio.