Author and Naturalist Chris Fink: Forage Like a Bear

Zenith Bookstore welcomes author and naturalist Chris Fink to share his book, Forage Like a Bear and talk about his experiences as a nature writer. Chris will answer questions from the audience and personally sign his book for readers.

Chris Fink’s collection of short prose contains a whole lot: whistling acorns, scribbling clams, gossipy geese, technicolor ducks, turkeys (including human ones), roving bands of chipmunks, chimneys, fires, chainsaws, lice, thin ice, approximately 30,000 blueberries, cars rolling uphill, the leaves of a mulberry tree drifting down, Peace Trail meanders and maybe a holy grail morel.The book is illustrated by John Porcellino.

Chris Fink is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Beloit College, where he edits the Beloit Fiction Journal.