Julia Corbett wins Reading the West Book Award

Out of the Woods, the latest book by Julia Corbett, University of Utah Professor of Communication and Environmental Humanities, won the Reading the West Book Award for Nonfiction in 2018. Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday was also the featured book at the recent Celebrate U event of faculty achievements hosted by the Vice President for Research and Marriott Library.

Reading the West is awarded annually by the Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association, a collection of independent booksellers, publishers, sales reps, wholesalers and industry professionals. Past nonfiction winners include Peter Heller, Kevin Fedarko, Terry Tempest Williams, Kent Nelson, Sandra Cisneros, Hampton Sides, Brady Udall, Pam Houston, Rudolfo Anaya, Rick Bass, Joy Harjo, and Wallace Stegner.

University of Nevada Press describes the book as "an introspective collection of essays that ruminate the practical and existential challenges of living an environmentally aware life with all of its ironies and contradictions".