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A founder of the Hub City Writers Project, John Lane is a
place-based educator at Wofford
College, an expert
kayaker, and the author of numerous books of essays and poetry. In addition to
his work with Hub City, his outdoor adventure prose has appeared in Outside,
American White Water, Canoe, South Carolina Wildlife, and
anthologies from National Geographic Books.
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His
first collection of place-based personal essays, Weed Time, appeared
from Briarpatch Press in 1993. In 1999 the University of Georgia Press
published The Woods Stretched for Miles: Contemporary Southern Nature
Writing, an anthology of Southern nature writing he co-edited with Wofford
colleague Gerald Thurmond. His second collection of place-based essays, Waist
Deep in Black Water appeared in 2002, and a book-length personal narrative,
Chattooga, followed in 2004, both from The University of Georgia Press
as well. His next book, Circling Home: Settlement on the Edge of a Southern
Flood Plain, will also appear from UGA Press in Fall 2007.
John
is featured in Hub City Anthology, Hub City Christmas, In Morgan's Shadow and Noble
Trees of the South Carolina Upcountry. He writes a weekly column in The
Spartanburg Journal called "The Kudzu Telegraph."
He has been awarded a NEA Poetry Apprenticeship Grant
(1979), a Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Virginia
(1980), a South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Arts Fellowship (1984),
and, in 2001, a prose piece about a Girl Scout camp threatened by development
was awarded The Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the
Southern Environment by the Southern Environmental Law Center.
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