I’m delighted to announce that Creative Nonfiction has nominated my essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” for a Pushcart Prize. Described as “the most honored literary project in America,” the Pushcart recognizes the best of the small presses. Since its inception in 1976, winners have been published in an annual anthology. This year’s winners will be announced in the spring. “The Butterfly…
Canaries: A Thilde Jensen Photo Essay in the New York Times
Thilde Jensen was a New York City photographer when she was exposed to a number of toxicants and subsequently developed multiple chemical sensitivity. This is her story, and the story of others she has met who face the isolation and debility of multiple chemical sensitivity… as told through her camera’s lens.
One Canary Sings – And Writes!
Funny how things happen sometimes. At Wildbranch, a 5-day writing workshop for environmental writers sponsored by Orion magazine, as I returned from a workshop about electronic media publication, I found a Facebook message from Amanda Sears, Associate Director of the Environmental Health Strategy Center. She had seen the photograph that I had “shared” from Orion‘s Facebook page… me wearing my…
Little Lead Hens
Soil isn’t generally the first thing people think about when they get chickens, but one day, as I was envisioning our future gardens, it dawned on me that now that we had finally convinced the bank to buy us a house, now that I could finally keep a backyard flock, there might be one more thing that could come between me and my dream of fresh organic eggs: Lead.
This Canary Has Something to Say
Not long ago, the Environmental Health Strategy Center, a member of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, sought people willing to be interviewed about why toxic chemical reforms are important to them. I volunteered, and this interview is the result: Interview with the Environmental Health Strategy Center
I know the truth; I know it in my body
When I was a girl, I had a tree. I did not own the tree, but it was mine. It had broad, heart-shaped leaves, and stood in a field at the top of a hill. I was a wild thing. All summer long, I scrambled through green and golden fields. I ran barefoot over the hot tar of the road…
A Reading from “The Butterfly Effect”
Here I am at the legendary New York literary hangout, the KGB Bar, reading excerpts from my essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” which interweaves the parallel stories of the declining monarch numbers and my challenges traveling–with multiple chemical sensitivity–to see them. The essay won the $1000 Robert Fragasso Animal Advocate Award for the Best Creative Nonfiction Essay About Animals, and was…
A Canary in New York
Since this blog is called “One Canary Sings,” I’ve decided I need to blog more actively about this canary’s ongoing efforts to sing, sing, SING about health and the environment. And a lot has been going on since last I submitted a report from the mines. First, I found out that my essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” which intertwines the parallel…
Big Talk Interview about One Canary Sings
In April, 2010, after my book in progress won honorable mention in the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance’s Maine Literary Awards, Suzanne Murphy invited me to join her and Dr. Caroline Teschke for an interview on Big Talk, their acclaimed WMPG radio talk show. Here is that interview: [audio:https://jenniferlunden.com/Audio/bigtalkinterview.mp3|titles=Big Talk]