Spring Creek Project and Center for the Humanities Present: Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History with Author Caroline Tracey
Acclaimed nature writer Caroline Tracey's Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History is a dazzling love letter to a strange ecosystem and a moving odyssey into her own identity.
More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today, nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse. In the book, Tracey travels across four continents to seek out and describe these extraordinary vanishing lakes and the people dedicated to saving them.
An exquisite blend of travel writing, memoir, and reportage covering themes from water conservation to queer identity, Salt Lakes is an inspiring call to fight for all that is fragile in our lives.
Join us as Tracey shares selections from the book and then is joined on stage by Michelle Nijhuis, author of the award-winning book Beloved Beasts, for continued conversation about this project.
"Caroline Tracey shows us the beauty, vitality, and necessity of landscapes both strange and familiar. This is nature writing as it should be."
— Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Caroline Tracey has written about the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands for numerous publications and has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing, and a Creative Capital State of the Art award. She was also awarded a Public Humanities Collaboratory Fellowship from PRAx to support this project. Originally from Colorado, Caroline holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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