The Swampy Gala: Reading and Celebration with Abigail Rorer and Barbara Hurd

Celebrate the publication of Swamp Impressions, featuring text by Barbara Hurd and engravings by Abigail Rorer, and the 25th anniversary of the publication of Barbara Hurd’s Stirring the Mud. The event will feature a reading, discussion, and light refreshments.

Abigail Rorer is a wood engraver, etcher, practitioner of the art of silverpoint, and the proprietor of The Lone Oak Press. Her award-winning books and prints are seen in numerous exhibitions and collections across North America and the UK. She has also done illustrations for trade and scholarly publishers such as Norton and Houghton-Mifflin; California, Massachusetts, and Harvard University Presses; The Folio Society; and a number of private presses.

Barbara Hurd is the author of The Epilogues (Standing Stone Books 2021), Listening to the Savage / River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (University of Georgia Press 2016), Tidal Rhythms (with photographer Stephen Strom, George F. Thompson Publishing 2016), Walking the Wrack Line (University of Georgia Press 2008), Entering the Stone, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (Houghton Mifflin 2003), and Stirring the Mud, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (Beacon Press 2001).

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction,
winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, she is Professor Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Frostburg State University.

www.barbarahurd.com