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Sharman Apt Russell

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January 01, 1954 in Arizona, The United States

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Science, Outdoors & Nature, Philosophy

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Sharman Apt Russell is a nature and science writer from New Mexico, United States. Her topics include living in place, public lands grazing, archaeology, flowers, butterflies, hunger, and Pantheism. Russell was born at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in 1954, was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and settled in southern New Mexico in 1981.

Russell is a professor in the Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, where shes teaches writing for graduate students. Russell received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and her B.S. in Conservation and Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.

Russell's essays and short stories have been widely published and anthologized. H...more Sharman Apt Russell is a nature and science writer from New Mexico, United States. Her topics include living in place, public lands grazing, archaeology, flowers, butterflies, hunger, and Pantheism. Russell was born at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in 1954, was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and settled in southern New Mexico in 1981.

Russell is a professor in the Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, where shes teaches writing for graduate students. Russell received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and her B.S. in Conservation and Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.

Russell's essays and short stories have been widely published and anthologized. Her collections of essays Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seasons of Life in the Southwest (Addison-Wesley, 1991; reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 2000) won the 1992 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award and New Mexico Zia Award and recounts her years as a back-to-the-lander in rural New Mexico. Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist was a New Mexico Book Award finalist and one of Booklists' top ten religious books of 2008.

Hunger: An Unnatural History (Basic Books, 2005) was the result of a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy, and An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect (Perseus Books, 2003) was a pick of independent booksellers in the Summer 2003 Book Sense 76. Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Swedish, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with other books also translated into Russian and Italian. Other awards for Russell are a Pushcart Prize, the Henry Joseph Jackson Award, and the Writers at Work Award. The Last Matriarch (University of New Mexico Press, 2000) is a novel about Paleolithic life in New Mexico some 11,000 years ago. The Humpbacked Fluteplayer (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1994) is a fantasy for ages 8–12.(less)

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Ghosts

This is a lovely online journal about nature and the built environment. In the current edition, May 2012, I have a piece on my great-grandmother, a miner in the Chiricauhua Mountains of southern Arizona.
http://terrain.org/

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Books by Sharman Apt Russell

Average rating: 3.70 · 358 ratings · 75 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Hunger: An Unnatural History 3.65 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect 3.75 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Anatomy Of A Rose: Exploring The Secret Life Of Flowers 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	When the Land Was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Songs Of The Fluteplayer: Seasons Of Life In The Southwest 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Kill the Cowboy: A Battle of Mythology in the New West 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Last Matriarch 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Humpbacked Fluteplayer 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Frederick Douglas (Black Americans of Achievement (Econo-Clad)) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead to the belief that a biological response, more food, will solve the problem.”
― Sharman Apt Russell, Hunger: An Unnatural History

tags: famine , hunger , politics

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“I will help--but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.”
― Sharman Apt Russell, Hunger: An Unnatural History

tags: philanthropy