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John Linstrom is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection To Leave for Our Own Country (Black Lawrence Press, April 2024), a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at The Climate Museum in New York City, and the series editor of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library for Cornell University Press. His editions of Bailey's work include The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings (Cornell UP, forthcoming), The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion (coedited; Cornell UP, 2019), and The Holy Earth (Counterpoint, 2015). His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Northwest Review, The Christian Century, and North American Review; his literary nonfiction has appeared in The Antioch Review and Newfound; and his scholarship appears in The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest (Wisconsin Historical Society, 2021). He holds a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University and an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University, and he lives with his wife and baby daughter in Queens. He is on FacebookTwitter, Instagram, and Medium.

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Fall 2022 Updates: Two Books Forthcoming, Several Poems

As followers of my social media accounts will know by now, this has been an eventful fall for my publication life!

My primary work on The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings for The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library (Cornell University Press) is finally complete, and the manuscript has been sent off to copyeditors. If all goes well, that should appear in the fall of 2023, and I will share a link on the website as soon as I have one for preorders. I have meanwhile been running a very successful fundraising effort to make the book more affordable and accessible to working teachers, for whom the book carries great instructional and inspirational potential, and we are now within reach of offering the book in a fully open-access edition! If you are interested in supporting leading-edge resources for teachers of outdoor learning (the book features new work by David W. Orr, Dilafruz R. Williams, and myself, as well as Bailey's writings on nature-study), I hope you'll consider donating and sharing the campaign here!

And then, just five months or so after the new Bailey edition drops, April 2024 will see the publication of my debut poetry collection, To Leave for Our Own Country, by Black Lawrence Press! I'm overjoyed that the manuscript has found such a caring and dynamic literary home; I've already been incredibly impressed by the press's commitment to its authors. Again, I look forward to sharing ordering information once preorders are available.

And I've been back in the game of journal submissions, following a hiatus of a couple years. I now have four different poems forthcoming in journals and magazines: Northwest Review, The Christian Century, Notre Dame Review, and Dunes Review. I can't wait to share these new poems when they are out in the world in the coming months!

Until then,

John