Fracture

This book bears witness to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together the voices of more than fifty writers exploring the complexities of fracking through first-hand experience, investigative journalism, story-telling, and verse. At a time when politics and profits inhibit our ability to have meaningful discussions about the hazards of fracking, these creative perspectives are needed to ignite the national conversation about how we can live with more compassion toward Earth.

Taylor Brorby received his M.A. in Liberal Studies from Hamline University in 2013, and is currently pursuing his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Taylor’s work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Rock, Paper, Scissors, The Englewood Review of Books, the Northern Plains Ethics Journal, and many others. Also, his work is forthcoming in the anthology Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College.Taylor has been awarded grants from Hamline University, St. Olaf College, Iowa State University, and the North Dakota Humanities Council. He has held residencies at Holden Village, St. Olaf College, and St. John’s University. He has been interviewed about his work as a writer and environmentalist on North Dakota Public Radio and National Public Radio.Taylor is currently writing Vespers 2014: A Vespers for Climate Change and his chapbook of poetry, Ruin: Elegies from the Bakken, is forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post, where he writes on education and environmentalism, a contributing editor for The EcoTheo Review, a contributing editor at Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies, a reviewer of books for The Englewood Review, of journals for Review Review, as well as book review editor at Orion Magazine.