How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories From the Open Road with Writer Teresa Jordan July 17, 2008

Please join us for this special evening with acclaimed writer and artist Teresa Jordan as she reads to us new stories inspired by her recent travels in the American West and Argentina.

Teresa Jordan was raised as part of the fourth generation on a cattle ranch in the Iron Mountain country of southeast Wyoming and has written or edited seven books about Western rural life, culture, and the environment, including the memoir Riding the White Horse Home and the classic study of women on ranches and in the rodeo, Cowgirls: Women of the American West.
The recipient of the Western Heritage Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame for scriptwriting and a literary fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts as well as many other literary awards, her most recent book is Fieldnotes from Yosemite, the second volume in her series of Sketchbook Expeditions.
Teresa received her BA in History from Yale University in 1977, graduating summa cum laude and winning election to Phi Beta Kappa. Her thesis, Wyoming Ranchers During the Great Depression, won the McClintock Prize for History of the American West. In 2002, she earned her BFA in Fine Art, with an emphasis in drawing and painting, from the University of Utah.
http://www.teresajordan.com/index.htm

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