FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program features Richard Adams Carey as the next writer in its 2009-2010 Visiting Writers Series. Acclaimed by the Washington Post as “a humanist and a journalist of considerable depth,” Carey will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, March 18, 2010, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open-to-the-public and will be followed by a signing by the author.
Carey is the author of four nonfiction books and essays noted for their treatment of matters of natural history, ecology and environmental affairs. His book “Raven’s Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight” (Houghton Mifflin, 1992) was named Book to Remember for 1992 by the New York Public Library. His work “Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman” (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) won the 2002 New Hampshire Writers’ Project nonfiction prize. His most recent book, “The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar and the Geography of Desire” (Counterpoint Press, 2005), is a fascinating chronicle of a fast-disappearing fish and the people whose lives depend on it.
Carey’s works have appeared in Yankee, New England Monthly, Northwest Magazine, Harvard Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Alaska, Country Journal, and the Boston Globe Magazine. He has also had short fiction published in turnrow and Meeting House, and soon in Hunger Mountain.
Carey grew up in Connecticut and holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard College and a master’s degree in educational administration from Lesley College. He now teaches in the MFA writing program at Southern New Hampshire University and is president ex officio of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.
