Leslie Roberts

Leslie Carol Roberts, author of THE ENTIRE EARTH AND SKY: Views on Antarctica, (Nebraska, 2008) was the first Fulbright Fellow in Antarctic Studies in the world and has delivered talks and papers on her multidisciplinary work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, the New Zealand Studies Association (London) as well as to scientific groups and at universities in the U.S. and abroad. Roberts, MFA, Iowa; MA, Canterbury, has written hundreds of articles and essays for magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, including the Bellevue Literary Review, the Iowa Review online, the Bangkok Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Sydney Morning Herald. She is currently at work on a play about the life of Frank Arthur Worsley, Shackleton's captain; a natural history of her life among coyotes, slugs, and the occasional skunk in the Presidio National Park; and the second part of her Antarctic trilogy. In 2009, she will be the distinguished writer in residence at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California, and she is currently an adjunct professor in the MFA programs in writing and in graduate design at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

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