The Hopper
The Hopper is a lively environmental literary magazine, along with stunning visual art, from Green Writers Press that strives towards an invigorated understanding of nature's place in human life. The annual publication in a series is part of a new phase in nature writing that seeks to include a modern consciousness in narratives of place.
Jenna Gersie
Jenna Gersie is a writer, editor, and educator currently based in rural northwest New Jersey. Jenna has participated in the Wildbranch Writing Workshop and the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers' Conference, and she recently completed a fiction writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her writing has appeared in Orion, Zoomorphic, and Kudzu House Quarterly. Her website is jennagersie.com.
Rose Alexandre-Leach
Rose Alexandre-Leach leads Sprouts for Kids (Green Writers Press), where she acquires and edits picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult fiction that reflect the publisher’s environmental mission. Rose is trained as a biologist; her work with words is informed and inspired by her time in the outdoors and as a teacher. Born and raised on the river in Vermont, Rose now lives in Brattleboro.
- Launch party on May 5, 2017 in Brattleboro, Vermont and elsewhere
- Launch begins February 8-12 at GWP booth at AWP in Washington with off-site reading
- College Environmental Humanities course supplemental reading marketikng campaign
- Advance review copies will go out all spring to colleges and universities
- Each writer/artist in the book will help promote the launch throughout the six-month period
- Online and print marketing campaign
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection (NAT011000)
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General (LCO000000)
- ART / General (ART000000)
