Join us for a conversation with author Laura Julier as she shares her memoir about her journey through loss and grief. Laura’s work is an exploration of beauty, self-discovery, and emotional redemption.

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About the Book:

In this lyric memoir, the author takes us on a journey through long-held feelings of loss and grief—experienced through various landscapes—until she lands in a cabin along the Iowa River, a place neglected and damaged, yet abounding in wildlife. Off Izaak Walton Road shows the power of natural places to heal both themselves and those who carefully attend to them. Julier finds the hidden beauty and quiet life still thriving after derechos and historic floods. From barred owls fledging in a damaged silver maple to beavers damming a culvert, she notices the exquisite amongst the discarded and ties it to her own journey of self-discovery and emotional redemption.

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About the Author:

Laura Julier is a former editor of Fourth Genre, the literary journal of nonfiction. As professor of writing at Michigan State University, she directed the Professional Writing Program, was a Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellow, and received several outstanding teaching awards from Michigan State University, Michigan Campus Compact, Drake University, and the University of Iowa. Her publications include (as co-editor) Nonfiction, the Teaching of Writing, and the Influence of Richard Lloyd-Jones (2023), and her essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Under the Gum Tree, Assay, Gulf Stream Magazine, and The MacGuffin. She currently works as a hospital chaplain and lives in Iowa City in a house built in 1893, with a dirt alley behind it, where once a barred owl lived in an old swamp maple.