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Register and see full details at https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/event\/brooklyn-book-festival-bookends-environmental-storytelling\/?mc_cid=0af922e452&mc_eid=e6c50f6c56<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Environmental Storytelling Panel with Kerri Arsenault (moderator), Garnette Cadogan, John Freeman, Sumanth Prabhaker, Emily Raboteau, and Sarah Smarsh<\/strong><\/p>\n How can storytelling contend with the legacies of resource extraction, toxic industries, and systemic disenfranchisement? How can storytellers bear witness to stories about the places and people harmed by such legacies, legacies that continue to manifest with each passing day? How can storytelling address the broader psychological, social, emotional, and cultural landscapes of such contested ecologies? This panel will discuss the possibilities and limits of environmental stories, how they are taught and created, and whose voices are elevated and whose are not.<\/p>\n The Panel:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kerri Arsenault<\/strong>\u00a0is book review editor at Orion magazine, teacher, book critic, and author of\u00a0Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains,<\/em>\u00a0which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and the Maine Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize. Her work has appeared in\u00a0Freeman\u2019s<\/em>, the\u00a0Boston Globe<\/em>,\u00a0Down East<\/em>,\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Paris Review Daily<\/em>, the\u00a0New York Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0Air Mail<\/em>, and the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n Garnette Cadogan<\/strong>\u00a0is an essayist. He is the Tunney Lee Distinguish Lecturer in Urbanism at MIT,\u00a0Senior critic in the Department of Sculpture of at Yale School of Art, and a Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Studies and Culture at University of Virginia.<\/p>\n John Freeman<\/strong>\u00a0is the founder of the literary annual\u00a0Freeman<\/em><\/a>\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0and editor of multiple anthologies, including\u00a0The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story<\/em><\/a>, (2021). Other books include\u00a0How to Read a Novelist<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox<\/em><\/a>, and two volumes of poetry,\u00a0Maps<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Park<\/em><\/a>. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker, The Paris Review,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The New York Times.\u00a0<\/em>He is currently an artist-in-residence at New York University and executive editor at Knopf.<\/p>\n Sumanth Prabhaker<\/strong>\u00a0is the editor of the environmental magazine\u00a0Orion.<\/em>\u00a0On the side, he runs the operations of Madras Press, a charitable publisher whose catalog includes work by Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, and David Foster Wallace. He received an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he was an editor for\u00a0Ecotone.<\/em>\u00a0He lives with his wife and children in western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n Emily Raboteau<\/strong>\u00a0is a critic, street photographer and author of\u00a0The Professor\u2019s Daughter<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Searching for Zion<\/em>, winner of an American Book Award. Her themes are race, social and environmental justice, parenting, and public art. A creative writing professor at the City College of New York, she lives and gardens in the Bronx.<\/p>\n Sarah Smarsh<\/strong>\u00a0is a journalist who has reported for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0and many other publications. Her first book,\u00a0Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth<\/em>, was a finalist for the National Book Award.\u00a0A 2018 research fellow at Harvard University\u2019s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Smarsh\u00a0is a frequent speaker and commentator on economic inequality.\u00a0She lives in Kansas.<\/p>\n