LTCC Writer's Series welcomes humorist Michael Branch

For more than a decade, Branch has been writing about life in Nevada’s Great Basin Desert with an audacity, lyricism, and wit that is uniquely his own, and on Thursday, October 20, he brings that humor to Lake Tahoe Community College at 8:00 p.m.

The LTCC Writers' Series event with Branch will be held in LTCC’s Roberta Mason Library. This event is free and open to students and the community.

In his latest book, Raising Wild, he offers an intimate exploration of the western high desert, a wild and extreme land of caliche and juniper, where pronghorn antelope run and mountain lions stalk, and where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure. In Branch’s hands, this barren landscape becomes a place teeming with energy and surprise. In this inspired and hilarious exploration of natural history and parenting, Branch reveals a desert wilderness in which the reader’s ideas about nature and themselves are challenged and transformed.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Branch is the author of more than 200 essays, articles, and reviews, and he has hosted more than 250 public readings and lectures. His creative nonfiction includes pieces that have received Honorable Mention for the Pushcart Prize and have been recognized as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His essays have appeared in magazines including Orion, Ecotone, Slate, Utne Reader, Sunset, Reader’s Digest, Hawk and Handsaw, High Country News, Places, and Whole Terrain, and in many essay collections, including Wonder and Other Survival Skills, The Best Creative Nonfiction, and Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together. Branch is also Professor of Literature and Environment in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he co-founded the nation’s first graduate program in Literature and Environment studies.