Gretchen Legler

Gretchen Legler, an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington, specializes in memoir writing, the personal essay and nonfiction essays about the natural world. Work from her first collection of essays, “All The Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman’s Notebook,” has won two Pushcart Prizes and has been widely excerpted and anthologized.

Legler’s scholarly work on American women nature writers and ecocriticism has appeared in journals and anthologies including Studies in the Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, “Reading Under the Sign of Nature” and “Writing the Environment.” Her most recent book, from Milkweed Editions in the fall of 2005, is a collection of linked essays about Antarctica, where she spent six months in 1997 as a fellow with the National Science Foundation’s Artists and Writers Program. Her creative nonfiction about Antarctica has already appeared in such venues as Orion , The Women’s Review of Books, and The Georgia Review.