Faculty
Lori Sonderlind
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: Palamountain 333
Phone: 518-580-5150
Email: lsoderli@skidmore.edu
Education:
- B.A., Lehigh University
- M.F.A., Columbia University
Teaching and research interests:
- Creative nonfiction, memoir
- Narrative and literary journalism
- American studies
- Media studies
Courses taught:
- EN 219: Nonfiction
- EN 105: Memoir from the margins
- EN 105: Backstories: Why Things Are...
Publications:
- The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour (University of Wisconsin press, 2020)
- Chasing Montana: A Love Story (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)
- 66 Signs (Norton's "Best Creative Nonfiction" anthology)
- Nowhere in Buffalo (Bluestem Press, 2019)
- Frequent contributor to New York Times Sunday Book Review
Other publishing experience:
- Editor, Inkwell Journal (2016-2022)
- Editor, Columbia Journal (1995-97)
- Fulltime reporting/editing career for various newspapers and magazines
Selected honors:
- Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards for memoir, 2020
- Out Magazine's "Out 100" notable artists, 2006
Selected essays:
- 鈥淣owhere in Buffalo鈥� (Bluestem Press, 2019)
- 鈥�66 Signs鈥� (PMS Journal and Norton Anthology of Best Creative Nonfiction)
- 鈥淗ot Springs, Montana鈥� (Nothing to Declare travel anthology, University of Wisconsin Press)
Book reviews:
- Contributing reviewer, the New York Times Sunday Book Review
- Editor, Inkwell Literary Journal, 2016 - 2021