Recent Events

July 16-17, 2011: Iowa City Book Festival. Panel Presentation, "Midwestern Memoir". Reading at Congregational Church. Iowa City, IA

February 2011: Panel presentation. AWP Annual Conference. Washington, DC

November 4-6, 2010: Panel presentations at NonfictionNow Conference. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

October 14-15, 2010: Cornell College. Book reading/​lecture/​classroom talks. Mount Vernon, IA

September 24, 2010: 24th Annual Roadside Prairie Conference. Featured Speaker. Ames, IA

September 16, 2010: Book reading/​lecture. Drake University. Des Moines, IA

September 9, 2010: Book reading/​lecture. Mount Mercy University. Cedar Rapids, IA

August 2-5, 2010: North American Prairie Conference. Featured Speaker and panel presentation. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

June 23, 2010: Lecture, "The Ethics of Memoir Writing." Oxbow Writing Project, University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA

May 26, 2010: Speaker, Glacier Creek Dedication, Allwine Prairie (University of Nebraska-Omaha). Omaha, NE

May 20-23, 2010: Featured Writer/​Instructor, Prairie Writers Workshop, Red Cloud, NE

April 12-15, 2010: Featured Author, Scott County Reads Together. Multiple events throughout week. Scott County, IA

April 8, 2010: Reading. AWP Conference. Denver, CO

March 25-26, 2010: Reading/​classroom talks. Eureka College, Eureka, IL

February 16, 2010: Book talk and reading. The Eclectic Book Review Club. Omaha, NE

2008-2009 Events

March 14, 2008: Iowa State University. Ames, IA (3PM reading)

March 18, 2008: Briar Cliff University. Sioux City, IA (7PM reading)

March 31, 2008: Interview on “Talk @​12” program. Iowa Public Radio, 12-1PM

April 3, 2008: Kansas University. Oread Books Lounge, Campus Bookstore, Lawrence, KS (7PM reading)

April 6, 2008: Midwestern Booksellers Association. East Village Books, Des Moines, IA (5:30PM)

April 17, 2008: Center for Great Plains Studies Interdisciplinary Symposium. Embassy Suites, Downtown Omaha, NE (4:30 PM reading)

April 26, 2008: The Bookworm bookstore. Omaha, NE (1PM reading)
www.bookwormomaha.com.

May 13, 2008: Garcia Street Books. Santa Fe, NM (5:00 PM reading) www.garciastreetbooks.com.

May 17, 2008: Tattered Cover bookstore (LoDo store). Denver, CO (2PM reading) www.tatteredcover.com.

May 31, 2008: East Village Book. Des Moines, IA (1:00 PM reading) www.eastvillagebooks.com.

June 5, 2008: Magers & Quinn bookstore. Minneapolis, MN (7:30 PM reading with Jonis Agee)
www.magersandquinn.com.

June 15, 2008: College of Idaho. Caldwell, ID (1:00 PM reading)

June 19, 2008: Powell’s bookstore (on Hawthorne). Portland, OR (7:30PM reading) www.powells.com.

July 10, 2008: Prairie Lights Bookstore. Iowa City, IA (7:00 PM reading) www.prairielights.com.

July 13, 2008: The Book Vault. Oskaloosa, IA (2:00 PM reading) bookvault.org.

July 19, 2008: Barnes and Noble. Council Bluffs, IA (2:00 PM reading)

July 20, 2008: The Willa Cather Foundation. Red Cloud, NE (2:00 PM reading). At the Red Cloud Opera House. For directions, visit www.willacather.org.

August 9, 2008: Island Time Books. Washington Island, WI (2:00 PM reading)
www.islandtimebooks.com.

September 9, 2008: Mount Marty College. Marian Auditorium. Yankton, South Dakota.

September 23, 2008: Humanities Iowa Writers Celebration. The Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA (7:00 PM reading).

October 1-4, 2008: Western Literature Conference. The Millennium Harvest House, Boulder, CO. Panel entitled "New Nonfiction Books." www.usu.edu/​westlit.

October 14, 2008: Language of Nature Conference. College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL. Info:
(630) 942-3291.

October 30, 2008: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Place Speakers Series. English Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lincoln, NE.

November 13, 2008: Fort Dodge, IA. Fort Dodge Public Library. (7:00 PM reading). www.fortdodgeiowa.org.

December 3, 2008: Missouri Valley Reading Series. University of Nebraska-Omaha campus. Omaha, NE. (7:30 PM reading).

January 17, 2009: Featured Speaker. Iowa Prairie Network Annual Winter Meeting. Des Moines, IA

February 11-14, 2009: Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Chicago, IL. Panel on religion and nature writing with Scott Russell Sanders, Alison Deming, Mary Swander, and Jeane Walker. Another panel featuring award-winning Orion magazine authors. www.awpwriter.org.

April 2009: Keynote, Trees Forever 20th Anniversary Celebration. Coralville, IA

May 2009: Featured Speaker, Dedication of Vincent Bluff Prairie as Iowa State Preserve. Council Bluffs, IA

September 10, 2009: Featured Speaker, Iowa Prairie Heritage Celebration. Sponsored by Prairie Studies Center, Briar Cliff University. Sioux City, IA

December 21, 2009: Book talk and reading, Mid-Month Book Club. Omaha, NE












































2008-2009 Events

March 14, 2008: Iowa State University. Ames, IA (3PM reading)

March 18, 2008: Briar Cliff University. Sioux City, IA (7PM reading)

March 31, 2008: Interview on “Talk @​12” program. Iowa Public Radio, 12-1PM

April 3, 2008: Kansas University. Oread Books Lounge, Campus Bookstore, Lawrence, KS (7PM reading)

April 6, 2008: Midwestern Booksellers Association. East Village Books, Des Moines, IA (5:30PM)

April 17, 2008: Center for Great Plains Studies Interdisciplinary Symposium. Embassy Suites, Downtown Omaha, NE (4:30 PM reading)

April 26, 2008: The Bookworm bookstore. Omaha, NE (1PM reading)
www.bookwormomaha.com.

May 13, 2008: Garcia Street Books. Santa Fe, NM (5:00 PM reading) www.garciastreetbooks.com.

May 17, 2008: Tattered Cover bookstore (LoDo store). Denver, CO (2PM reading) www.tatteredcover.com.

June 5, 2008: Magers & Quinn bookstore. Minneapolis, MN (7:30 PM reading with Jonis Agee)
www.magersandquinn.com.

May 31, 2008: East Village Book. Des Moines, IA (1:00 PM reading) www.eastvillagebooks.com.

June 19, 2008: Powell’s bookstore (on Hawthorne). Portland, OR (7:30PM reading) www.powells.com.

July 10, 2008: Prairie Lights Bookstore. Iowa City, IA (7:00 PM reading) www.prairielights.com.

July 13, 2008: The Book Vault. Oskaloosa, IA (2:00 PM reading) bookvault.org.

July 19, 2008: Barnes and Noble. Council Bluffs, IA (2:00 PM reading)

July 20, 2008: The Willa Cather Foundation. Red Cloud, NE (2:00 PM reading). At the Red Cloud Opera House. For directions, visit www.willacather.org.

August 9, 2008: Island Time Books. Washington Island, WI (2:00 PM reading)
www.islandtimebooks.com.

September 9, 2008: Mount Marty College. Marian Auditorium. Yankton, South Dakota.

September 23, 2008: Humanities Iowa Writers Celebration. The Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA (7:00 PM reading).

October 1-4, 2008: Western Literature Conference. The Millennium Harvest House, Boulder, CO. Panel entitled "New Nonfiction Books." www.usu.edu/​westlit.

October 14, 2008: Language of Nature Conference. College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL. Info:
(630) 942-3291.

October 30, 2008: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Place Speakers Series. English Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lincoln, NE.

November 13, 2008: Fort Dodge, IA. Fort Dodge Public Library. (7:00 PM reading). www.fortdodgeiowa.org.

December 3, 2008: Missouri Valley Reading Series. University of Nebraska-Omaha campus. Omaha, NE. (7:30 PM reading).

January 17, 2009: Featured Speaker. Iowa Prairie Network Annual Winter Meeting. Des Moines, IA

February 11-14, 2009: Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Chicago, IL. Panel on religion and nature writing with Scott Russell Sanders, Alison Deming, Mary Swander, and Jeane Walker. Another panel featuring award-winning Orion magazine authors. www.awpwriter.org.

April 2009: Keynote, Trees Forever 20th Anniversary Celebration. Coralville, IA

May 2009: Featured Speaker, Dedication of Vincent Bluff Prairie as Iowa State Preserve. Council Bluffs, IA

September 10, 2009: Featured Speaker, Iowa Prairie Heritage Celebration. Sponsored by Prairie Studies Center, Briar Cliff University. Sioux City, IA

December 21, 2009: Book talk and reading, Mid-Month Book Club. Omaha, NE


Selected Works

Memoir
Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father
Forthcoming from Trumpeter Books/Shambhala Press in Spring 2013!
Memoir
Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
“…Price knows how to find beauty in quiet moments…A winsome, perceptive coming-of-age memoir.” Kirkus
Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands
“[A]n environmentalist version of The Pilgrim’s Progress.” Virginia Quarterly Review