Environmental Writing in Southern California—

a reading and discussion

Jennifer Price

Jennifer Price received her PhD in History from Yale University and is currently an independent scholar and writer living in LA. She has published Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, which investigates the culture of nature in the trade of exotic feathers for women’s hats, the plastic pink flamingo, and “wilderness” stores in suburban malls. Her forthcoming book is called Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA. Price is also a member of the Los Angeles Urban Rangers and a tour guide of the mighty LA River.

Brad Monsma

Bradley Monsma received his PhD from the University of Southern California and he teaches English at CSU Channel Islands. His book, The Sespe Wild: Southern California’s Last Free River, describes his adventures in and reflections on this wilderness less than fifty miles northwest of downtown LA.
 

Bill Fox

William Fox has published books on topics ranging from Antarctica, the Great Basin, Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, and Las Vegas, as well as numerous books of poetry. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant, and was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute. In Making Time: Essays on the Nature of Los Angeles, Fox writes about the La Brea tar pits, the antennae on the mountain peaks that surround LA, and the Forest Lawn cemetery, among other things.