Amy Pearson talks about her poetry on March 14

Amy Rae Pearson on March 14 at 6:30 pm in the Cordingley Room, will discuss and read some of her poetry from her books '100 Days of Solitude' and 'Poems for Certain Women.' 

Amy is a writer, teacher, and wilderness advocate. She grew up on a farm in Northcentral Montana and earned a Ph.D. in organizational communication from Arizona State University. After finishing her formal education, she hit the road to Asia for a few years, but found herself missing the mountains of Montana. Amy has worked for the Park Service, Forest Service, in the environmental non-profit sector, and now as a professor at Great Falls College-MSU. Her newest book is dedicated to her Grandma Harriet, who was also a poet.

Her first book of poems '100 Days of Solitude' was released in 2017 and documents her experience as a fire lookout on Jumbo Mountain in the Bob Marshall Wilderness during one of the biggest fire seasons in decades. Amy will mostly read poems from that book and several from her second, as well.