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Sharman
Apt Russell
 Title: Professor
Office Location: Light Hall 207
Campus Phone: 6345
E-Mail Address: russellsa@wnmu.edu
Degrees: MFA - University of Montana; BS - University of California, Berkeley
Date began at WNMU: 1981
Community Involvement: Founder and director of Alimento para el Nino, a school-based food pantry program for children in Grant County; president of conservation organization, Upper Gila Watershed Association; member of Mayor’s Advisory Council on Climate Change
Book Publications:
- Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (Basic Books, 2008)
- Hunger: An Unnatural History (Basic Books, 2005)
- An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect (Perseus Books, 2003)
- Anatomy of a Rose (Perseus Books, 2001)
- The Last Matriarch (UNM Press, 2000)
- When the Land was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology (Addison-Wesley, 1996)
- The Humpbacked Fluteplayer (Knopf, 1994)
- Kill the Cowboy : A Battle of Mythology in the New West (Addison-Wesley, 1993)
- Songs of the Fluteplaye r (Addison-Wesley, 1991)
Teaching Experience
- Sharman Russell began teaching writing skills at WNMU in 1981. Many of her classes now are online.
- Along with the classes she teaches here at WNMU, Ms. Russell also teaches graduate students in the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.
- Professor Russell has been a guest speaker and visiting writer at numerous regional and national conferences.
Awards and Honors
- Writers at Work Fellowship Winner in Nonfiction, Park City, Utah, 1989
- Henry Joseph Jackson Award in Nonfiction, San Francisco, CA, 1989
- Pushcart Prize, essay "Illegal Aliens" published in Pushcart Prize Anthology XV, 1990
- 1992 Mountain and Plains Booksellers Award for Songs of the Fluteplayer
- 1992 New Mexico Presswomen's Zia Award for Songs of the Fluteplayer
- 2001 WNMU Research Award in Excellence
- 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio, Italy
- 2003 76/BookSense award for Obsessions with Butterflies
- 2003 PEN Judge for Children's Literature
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