HANCOCK -- Katie Alvord, best known as the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile, will present the second Finlandia University Writer’s Journey seminar from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Chapel of St. Matthew on the Finlandia University campus.Alvord is a freelance writer and long-term advocate of transportation reform. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Alternatives, the Boston Globe, Orion Afield, E Magazine, Utne Reader, and others.* A former librarian, she has worked with non-profit groups and served on local environmental and bicycle advisory committees.
Most recently, Alvord’s series on climate change in the Lake Superior basin, first published on Keweenaw Now, won the 2007 Science Journalism Award for Online Reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.* In 1993, she was recognized as a San Francisco Bay Area Clean Air Champion for "making a difference" by going car-free and writing about the experience. Alvord has lectured frequently on environmental topics in the U.S. and Canada. Born and raised in northern California, she now lives in the Copper Country.
The series of eleven Finlandia University Writer’s Journey seminars, occurring weekly from January through April 2009, features talks by poets, fiction and non-fiction writers and journalists in which the authors share their work and discuss the writing process, literary craft and publishing.
The third Writer’s Journey seminar, to take place Monday, Feb. 2, will feature Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Sundays in America : Writing about a Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith.
For additional information, please contact Suzanne Van Dam at 906-487-7515 or suzanne.vandam@finlandia.edu.
*Editor's Note: Katie Alvord wrote several articles for the original Keweenaw Now. Her prize-winning articles on climate change in the Lake Superior basin can be accessed in our archives.
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