Storyteller's Voice: Stanley Crawford

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Saturday, September 25th, 1:00PM, Headquarters Library, 401 East University Avenue, Gainesville, FL

Stanley Crawford is the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction. His most recent novel is Petroleum Man (Overlook Press, 2005). Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine was re-issued by Dalkey Archive Press in 2008.

Crawford has lived in northern New Mexico with his wife RoseMary for the past forty years, dividing his time between farming and writing. They live in a house they built themselves, of adobe bricks cast from the soil of the farm.

His nonfiction, nature-related books include A Garlic Testatment: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm and The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays.

He is the recipient of two NEA Writing Fellowships and a three-year Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony; the Rockefellar Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas; and the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington.

This past winter he directed a graduate fiction writing workshop at UMASS Amherst and in December, he will teach a Southwest Literature course at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs.

For the Alachua County Library District, Crawford will be reading from his work, talking about his experiences, fielding questions and signing books.

Storyteller's Voice is made possible through funding provided by the Alachua County Friends of the Library.