Scott Russell Sanders
Bio
Scott Russell Sanders, Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Writing from the Center (IUP, 1995), Hunting for Hope, and A Private History of Awe. Sanders is winner of the Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Essay Award for Natural History, AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the 2009 Mark Twain Award.
His writing examines the human place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.
He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.