Biography
Tori Bush, co-editor of the anthology, is a PhD Candidate at Louisiana State University where she also teaches. She is working on a nonfiction book that deals with both personal and public histories of toxic pollution. She has written for publications such as Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Art in America, The New Orleans Advocate, South Writ Large and more.
Richard Goodman, co-editor of the anthology, is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. His other books are The Soul of Creative Writing, A New York Memoir and The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker's Journey Through 9-11. He has written for The New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Vanity Fair, Ascent and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Richard is a founding member of the New York Writers Workshop. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Orleans.
Research
The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing is a collection of over forty texts that explore the changing relationship culture has to our environment in the Gulf South. Spanning the last century, this compilation brings together a wide-ranging group of writers who grapple with what it means to enter the anthropocene in one of the most ecologically rich, but also most environmentally endangered areas of the country. Writers as varied as Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Bullard, Natasha Trethewey, and Josh Neufeld will be featured.
Currently, Richard Goodman, co-editor, along with myself have made all the selections for the book and are currently negotiating permissions licenses. We have co-written the introduction to the book and Jack Davis, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Gulf: The Making of the American Sea will write the forward. We expect to turn in this manuscript to the publisher in December 2018.
