Kerri Arsenault
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Kerri Arsenault is a literary critic, co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University; contributing editor at Orion magazine; and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Her writing has been published in the Boston Globe, The Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Freeman’s, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. *** Mill Town won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction, and an Inge Feltrinelli Prize (Italy), dedicated to women writers who have used their voices in defense of human rights. Mill Town was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize, the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics, the New England Independent Booksellers Association nonfiction prize, the New England Society Book Awards, the Connecticut Book Awards, and a semi-finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Recently, Kerri was the Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and a fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Her work has also been supported by Chatham University’s Falk School of Sustainability as the 2023 visiting Rachel Carson Scholar; the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; University of Oregon’s Center for Environmental Futures; and the Architectural League of New York. She has enjoyed writing residencies at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway; Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency in Texas; and Bread Loaf at Middlebury College, Vermont. Kerri has been a mentor for the New City Critics Fellow program for the Urban Design Forum, and a member of the American Society for Environmental History, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, Pen America, and the National Book Critics Circle, where I formerly served on the Board. Kerri splits her time between France and New England. Headshot by Erik Madigan Heck
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