Writers' stories in motion healing, joy, and triumph Gray-Rosendale, Laura editor. text bibliography nyu 2020 monographic eng print viii, 147 pages ; 24 cm "In this book, various writers from different backgrounds share beautiful, creatively-written essays about how forms of physical activity (e.g., hiking, backpacking, road running, building a fire, practicing yoga, trail running, walking, boogie boarding, cycling, snowshoeing, swimming, mountain biking, and doing triathlons) as well as their interactions with the natural world have impacted their specific writing practices, teaching approaches, and who they are as people. In their lively pieces they explore the myriad ways in which physical activities in particular environmental contexts have directly and radically impacted their composing processes as well as their lives as writers. Drawing from techniques in creative nonfiction as well as rhetoric and writing studies, each author draws the reader into her/his adventures and experiences in illuminating ways, furthering the argument that physical activities are not disconnected from our writing. Rather, they are inextricably linked to our writing practices. And oftentimes we are in fact composing in the very act of engaging in such physical activities"-- Hiking Hard / Annette McGivney -- Teaming Up: Running and Writing in Collaboration / Eileen Schell -- Building the Fire: How Routine and Practice Create a Spark / Karen Auvinen -- The Bermuda Standard: Through the Practice of Both Yoga and Writing I Rise Up and Heal from Trauma / Jill Ippolito -- Chasing Creativity: Trail Running to Write / Laura Gray-Rosendale -- Uncharted: Walking and Writing Off the Map / Elizabeth Geoghegan -- Catching the Next Wave: Writing and Boogie Boarding / Suzanne Roberts -- Self-Propelled: How Biking Steered My Writing Life / Shawna Kenney -- Snowshoeing on a Lake on a Quiet Evening / Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes -- Swimming in the Existential Lane / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Mountain Biking, Writing, and Reckoning / Kyle Boggs -- Writing with Iron / Optimism One. edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale. Includes bibliographical references and index. Authorship Exercise Nature (Aesthetics) American essays 21st century American essays Authorship Exercise Nature (Aesthetics) 2000-2099 fast PN153 .W76 2020 808.02 Writers' stories in motion New York : Peter Lang, [2020] (DLC) 2020000286 9781433173370 1433173379 9781433178863 9781433178870 9781433178887 2020000285 pda,print DLC 200506 20250318212306.7 in00004405280 eng