John T. Price (U. of Iowa:  BA Religion, MFA Nonfiction Writing, PhD English) is the award-winning author of four books of nonfiction— Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey Into the American Grasslands (U. Nebraska Press, 2004), Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (DaCapo, 2008), Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father (Shambhala, 2013), and All is Leaf: Essays and Transformations (U. of Iowa, 2022)—and the forthcoming Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story (2025, Ice Cube Press).  He is also editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader (U. of Iowa, 2014).  A recipient of a prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, his work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Terrain.org, Orion, Fourth Genre, Essay Daily, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy.  He is the Regents/Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he directs the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Program.  He lives with his family in the beautiful Loess Hills of western Iowa.

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