Karen Piper, the Writer in Residence, is an award winning professor of literature and geography at the University of Missouri, Columbus, and a graduate of the University of Oregon. Piper is the author of The Price of Thirst: Water Scarcity and the Coming Chaos, which won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in current events , and A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert, among other books . The Sierra Club honored her with a Sierra nature writing award.
Participating in the workshop were Katrina Maggiulli (UO PhD candidate, Environmental Studies and English), Paul Guernsey (recent UO PhD, Philosophy ), Kyle Keeler (UO PhD candidate, Environmental Studies and English), Jess Brown (UO University Communications), Catherine McNeur (As soc. Prof., History, Portland State University), Kairn Klieman (As soc. Prof., History, University of Houston), Victoria Bradley Aquilone (PhD Candidate, English, University of Delaware), Erik DeLuca (Visiting Prof. , sound art, Brown University), Samuel Holleran (urban and social designer, Ellery Studio, Berlin, Germany).