Jerry Dennis

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Jerry Dennis (born 1954) is an American writer of nonfiction and short fiction. He is known for writing about the the effect of human culture on the natural environment.

Early life and education

Dennis was born in Flint, Michigan and grew up in rural northern Michigan. 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.

Career

After graduating Dennis worked as a carpenter for five years while establishing himself as a book author and magazine writer.

He has written articles for more than 100 publications, including The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Sports Afield, Field and Stream, American Way, and the literary magazines Epoch, Witness, Mid-American Review, Pank, and Michigan Quarterly Review. 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 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 Conference, where he teaches creative non-fiction and nature writing.

Books

• The Windward Shore University of Michigan Press (2011)
• The Living Great Lakes Macmillan (2004)
• Leelanau: A Portrait of Place (2000)
• From a Wooden Canoe Macmillan (1999, 2014)
• The River Home Macmillan (1998, 2013)
• The Bird in the Waterfall HarperCollins (1996, 2014)
• A Place on the Water Macmillan (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 (1986, 2001, 2013)

Awards and honors

• 2004 Michigan Notable Books
• 2004 Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award
• 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.