Visiting Writers Lecture Series

Debra Gwartney is the author of Live Through This, a memoir published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009, and a finalist for the National Books Critics Award and the National Books for a Better Life Award. Her book was also short-listed for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award and Oregon Book Award. Debra is the co-editor, with her husband Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. She is on the nonfiction faculty for the Pacific University low-residency MFA in writing and publishes in many journals and magazines. She is currently working on a book about growing up in the West, a chapter of which appeared in the summer 2011 issue of The American Scholar.