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April 1, 2008

Author Linda Hasselstrom lecture cancelled

Rancher and author Linda Hasselstrom has had to cancel her lecture for Friday, April 11, due to a major snowstorm in western Nebraska, making it impossible for her to make it to Ames.

The author was to speak on "The Beauty of Responsibility" in the Gallery of the Memorial Union beginning at 8 p.m. The event was sponsored by the Department of English's Creative Writing Program.

Hasselstrom is the author of many highly acclaimed books of nonfiction and poetry including Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains, Windbreak, and Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work. She is the the co-editor of several anthologies, including Leaning into the Wind, Land Circle, and Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West.

For nearly 30 years, Hasselstrom has earned her living by working on the family cattle ranch near the Black Hills of South Dakota, from freelance writing of books and essays, and by teaching writing workshops in poetry and nonfiction writing and publishing.

In 1996 she began operating her ranch home - now called Windbreak House - as a writing retreat for women writers. She now winters in Wyoming, commuting to the ranch to teach. Even with this added perspective, her work remains forever imprinted by and rooted in the grasslands of southwestern South Dakota.