by Hank Nuwer | Oct 20, 2025 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
One of the hardest-working, nicest students I ever taught at Ball State University (1985-1989) was a national spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service during the anthrax mail scare aftermath in 2001. Her name was Darla Stafford. When I guest-taught a class for her in...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 30, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Last Frontier Day “Aunt Jean”: An Unforgettable Alaskan Artist By Hank Nuwer It was 1980, in northern Colorado, when I chatted with Martha Jean Shadrach for the first time. A contributing writer to Denver Magazine then, I accepted an invitation from Jane, my...
by Hank Nuwer | May 7, 2025 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography
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by Hank Nuwer | May 6, 2025 | Book Review, Creative Writing, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Yesterday for the first time I read a sad, brilliant piece of creative nonfiction in The Georgia Review, a periodical my long-ago house mate once appeared in. And like my former house mate, the author of this story was a Pushcart Press award winner. The title is...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 27, 2025 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor
Have you heard about the salmon scientific experiment underway in Oregon? Hakai magazine reports that field researchers may have found a way to persuade hatchery fish to swim upstream back to their hatchery home the way wild young salmon do. Now, as a cheechako to...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 27, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor
My wife Gosia and I returned yesterday from a working vacation in Alaska. The mountains wore a majestic white cape of snow. As we drove hairpin turns on the Kenai Peninsula, the Avis rental car belched an ominous warning noise. Gulp, a dashboard icon predicted...
