Jerry Dennis

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Jerry Dennis (born 1954 in Flint, Michigan) is an American writer of nonfiction and short fiction. He grew up in rural northern Michigan and is known for writing about the places where nature and human culture intersect.

Contents: 1 Life and work 2 Books 3 Awards and Honors 4 References

Life and work: Dennis received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Louisville in 1981, after attending Northern Michigan University and Northwestern Michigan College. After graduating he worked as a carpenter for five years while establishing himself as a book author and magazine writer. He has earned his living as a writer since 1986, writing for more than 100 publications, including The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Sports Afield, Field and Stream, American Way, and many others, including literary magazines such as Epoch, Witness, Mid-American Review, Pank, and Michigan Quarterly Review http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2014/08/summer-2014/. Throughout the 1990s he wrote regular columns for Wildlife Conservation Magazine, the publication of Wildlife Conservation International and the Bronx Zoo, and Canoe and Kayak Magazine. Journalistic assignments sent him abroad to Iceland, Chile, and extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada. Since 2000 he has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan’s Bear River Writers Conferencehttp http://www.lsa.umich.edu/bearriver/aboutbearriver/pastfacultyandworkshops, where he teaches creative non-fiction and nature writing.

Books: • The Windward Shore University of Michigan Press http://www.press.umich.edu/4560965/windward_shore (2011) • The Living Great Lakes Macmillan http://us.macmillan.com/thelivinggreatlakes/jerrydennis (2004) • Leelanau: A Portrait of Place (2000) • From a Wooden Canoe Macmillan http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312267384 (1999, 2014) • The River Home Macmillan http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312254155 (1998, 2013) • The Bird in the Waterfall HarperCollins (1996, 2014) • A Place on the Water Macmillan http://us.macmillan.com/aplaceonthewater/jerrydennis (1993, 2013) • It's Raining Frogs and Fishes HarperCollins (1992, 2013) • The Best Bicycle Tours of Eastern Canada (1992) • Canoeing Michigan Rivers Thunder Bay Press http://www.thunderbaypressmi.com/titleinfo.php?isbn=9781933272337 (1986, 2001, 2013)

Awards and honors: • 2004 Michigan Notable Books http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,2351,7-160-54574_39583-87839--,00.html • 2004 Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award http://www.northland.edu/sigurd-olson-environmental-institute-sonwa-previous-recipients.htm • 2004 Great Lakes Culture Best Book Award Non-Fiction http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2004/center-for-great-lakes-culture-announces-winners-of-fourth-annual-awards-competition/ • 2004 The Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Award for Literature http://librarysubjectguides.svsu.edu/content.php?pid=85748&sid=3369666 • 2003 Alumni Fellows Award, University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/alumniandfriends/alumni-fellows-awards • 1999 Michigan Author of the Year http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,2351,7-160-54574_36788_36789-129585--,00.html • 1993, 1996, 1998, and 2003 Best Book of the Year awarded by Outdoor Writers Association of America.

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