In my tenth year with the Radford University English Department, I teach courses in American literature, environmental literature, creative nonfiction, and professional writing. A Natural Sense of Wonder: Connecting Kids Nature Through the Seasons will be released in June 2008 from the University of Georgia Press. Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place is available from the University of Nevada Press. For more about the new book, including readings and events, visit "Dirt World."