Intended Audience
Thursday, October 17: Nonfiction Writers Mary Quade and Cris Harris (7:30, Daugherty-Palmer Commons)
Introduced by Professors Jerry Gabriel and Jennifer Cognard-Black
Mary Quade is the author of Zoo World: Essays (The Ohio State University Press / Mad Creek Imprints), winner of the 2022 The Journal Non/Fiction Prize, and two poetry collections: Guide to Native Beasts (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) and Local Extinctions (Gold Wake). She is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for both poetry and creative nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Hiram College and lives in northeast Ohio.
Cris Harris is an award-winning educator and author of I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart (Oregon State University Press 2021) a memoir about growing up in a household wrestling with faith, addiction, violence and the AIDS epidemic. As Hawken School’s Dean of Experiential Education, he builds and promotes learning opportunities that put the experience of the student at the center of education, including international expeditions, backcountry courses, hands-on wilderness medicine, and investigative journalism. Cris spends summers running, writing, growing tomatoes and restoring a turn-of-the-century barn. He’s currently at work on a collection of essays about paradox in memory, science and religion. His work has been recognized with two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for non-fiction.