Judges have announced the finalists for the 2015 ASLE Book Awards. The ASLE book awards in the areas of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing recognize excellence in the field.

Winners will be announced in early June, and the official presentation will be at the Eleventh ASLE Biennial Conference, to be held at the University of Idaho from June 23-27, 2015. Eligible submissions were books published by ASLE and affiliate members in 2013 and 2014.  Congratulations to our short-listed authors:

Creative Award Finalists:

 

Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
by Andrew Furman (memoir/essays)

 

The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World
by Julian Hoffman (creative nonfiction)

 

Dark. Sweet.
by Linda Hogan (poetry)

 

The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History
by Richard J. King (creative nonfiction)

 

Invasives
by Brandon Krieg (poetry)

 

Subduction Zone
by Emily McGiffin (poetry)

 

 

Scholarly Award Finalists:

 

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World
by Timothy Morton

 

Different Shades of Green: African Literature,
Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
by Byron Caminero-Santangelo

 

Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson

 

Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
by Nicole Seymour

 

Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
edited by François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Michel Granger

 

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
by Karen Raber