By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, KY – The U.S. Air Force sent these two University of Kentucky grads around the nation and the world, and now they’re back in Lexington. Cadets in UK’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 290 are getting the benefit of these alumni’s experience.
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Sierra Heimel has an award-winning passion for hanging out in low places: caves.
By Ryan Girves
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 8, 2021) — Firsts can be scary. The first time riding a bike or learning how to drive, or a first job — all scary. Being the first in your family to do something — even scarier.
Austin Huff, a first-generation University of Kentucky senior from Topmost, a small town in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, knows this all too well.
Learn how Vanessa Holden (History), Director of the Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative, is uncovering early African American contributions to Kentucky’s signature industries.
Award winning author and UK professor, Erik Reece, will discuss the craft of Creative Nonfiction, and choose a couple of participants' written excerpts to analyze in-depth.
Q&A about CNF and UK's MFA program will follow.
Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_avKJ0ZdzRMKHE3w0bhDYwQ
Erik Reece is the author of AN AMERICAN GOSPEL: ON FAMILY, HISTORY AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD and LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS, which won Columbia University's John. B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Sierra Club's David R. Brower Award for Environmental Excellence. His work has appeared in HARPER'S, ORION, THE OXFORD AMERICAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at ORION magazine and is currently at work on a book-length argument for the preservation of UK's own Robinson Forest, called THE EMBATTLED WILDERNESS.
