Welcome to the website of Luke Wallin, award-winning author of young adult novels, conservation books, and songs; Luke teaches in the MFA program of Spalding University, and offers
manuscript consultations with his daughter Eva Gordon.
Luke’s eight young adult novels have been selected Best Books by the American Library Association’s Booklist, the New York Public Library, Voya, and others.
Ceremony of the Panther is recommended on the Smithsonian Institute’s Anthropology Outreach website, in its Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, for K-12, and has been recorded for the blind by the Library of Congress.
In the Shadow of the Wind is recommended for high school history classes by the Committee on U.S. History Standards. While teaching as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at University College Dublin, Luke collaborated with Anne Buttimer, Professor and Chair of the Geography Department, in co-editing the book
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective, which presents work on place and identity from many countries. Luke’s latest book is
Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture, which was edited by Eva Gordon.
Pictured at right:
Front Cover of
Conservation Writing:
Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture
By Luke Wallin
Published by the Center for Policy Analysis
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Preview and order from the distributor
www.lulu.com/content/505405
Luke is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he was also Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Analysis. He offers books and CDs of stories and songs. His novel manuscript
The Soul Tree was a semifinalist for the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel contest in 2008, and he is a guitarist playing an original piece on an episode of the forthcoming RadioCallingAmerica program, to be hosted by The National Writing Project.
Luke holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, and graduate degrees in Philosophy and Regional Planning. His conservation work has included land preservation in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, consulting on an organic farm in France, and farm and forest management in the American Southeast.
Luke’s new book,
Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture, is published by the Center for Policy Analysis. The table of contents, introduction to the book, chapter excerpts, three chapters, and the bibliography may be found on the
Conservation Writing page of this site.
Autographed copies of
Conservation Writing
will be available for a limited time at
the Village Voice
Bookshop / Paris.
