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Latria Graham, Bloedel Reserve’s December Creative Resident, is featured in this free class that begins with a short formal reading highlighting her personal connection to the natural world and then becomes a conversation about the art of nature writing. You’ll leave with writing prompts and ideas you can continue to develop once the creative session is over.

Register for “Iron in Blood, Iron in Clay” through Bloedel to ensure a seat.

Graham's work has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian, espnW, Southern Living, and The Atlantic. She is the ethical travel columnist for Afar Magazine, as well as the writer behind Garden & Gun's "This Land" column, which uses time, place, and memory to document and investigate the lesser known or rapidly disappearing aspects of the natural world in the South.
An assistant professor of creative writing in Augusta University’s English and World Languages Department, she also is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the University of Georgia's Narrative Nonfiction MFA program housed in the Grady College of Mass Communication & Journalism. Her forthcoming book, “Uneven Ground: A Memoir of a Family, a Land, and a Culture in Peril,” about her attempt to preserve her family’s century-old farm and sense of rootedness, will be published by Mariner, a division of HarperCollins.