Welcome to lukewallin.com, the website of Luke Wallin. Luke teaches writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and in the brief-residency MFA in Writing program at Spalding University, summer term. He’s a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Analysis, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Luke holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Alabama, and a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 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. He has given talks on Conservation Writing at the University of Chile, at James Cook University in Australia, and received a Fulbright Foundation Award to teach at University College Dublin. While in Ireland Luke collaborated with Anne Buttimer, Professor and Chair of the Geography Department, on a teaching project and in co-editing the book Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective, which presents work on place and identity from nearly 20 countries.

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.

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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

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Autographed copies of Conservation Writing
will be available for a limited time at
the Village Voice Bookshop / Paris.