Robert Finch

Courtesy of the NLF Website 

 

Robert Finch will be a speaker at this year’s Literary Festival. 

Robert has published seven books of essays, most recently The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore (Counterpoint Press, 2007). He also edited A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader and co-edited (with John Elder) The Norton Book of Nature Writing. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals and has been widely anthologized. In October 2005 Finch began producing weekly radio commentaries for WCAI, an NPR affiliate of Boston’s WGBH public radio station, and in 2005 he received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Radio Writing. He has taught at numerous colleges and writers conferences and is currently on the nonfiction faculty of the MFA program in writing at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with his wife, the writer Kathy Shorr, and spends summers in Newfoundland.

Here’s a link to a recent article in the New York Times mentioning Robert Finch — **CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE**