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Steve Edwards

Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards is the author of Breaking into the Backcountry, the story of his seven months of solitude along the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River in Oregon. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Orion Magazine, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He tweets @The_Big_Quiet.


As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

Steve Edwards on the Gathering of Life’s Infinite Moments
August 27, 2024  By Steve Edwards
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On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

Steve Edwards Wonders If It’s Possible to Translate One Generation’s Trauma to the Next
July 14, 2023  By Steve Edwards
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When Are Men Dangerous? On Agency, Imagination, and What a Teacher Can Do

Steve Edwards: “A story is a negotiation between what might have been, what is, and what still could be.”
April 15, 2022  By Steve Edwards
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Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the Things We Miss
August 23, 2021  By Steve Edwards
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In the Face of Implacable Landscapes, Natural and Viral

Steve Edwards on Sharks, Stories, and One of the Great Art Teachers of the 20th Century, Hans Hofmann
April 9, 2020  By Steve Edwards
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On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)

Steve Edwards on the Meaning of Books as You Grow Older
January 3, 2019  By Steve Edwards
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What I Didn’t Know About Life, Marriage, and Working on the Line

Steve Edwards on Finding Redemption as a Young Writer
March 7, 2018  By Steve Edwards
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My Writer’s Idyll is a Busy, Messy, Full Life

Steve Edwards Goes to the Woods to (Not) Find His Voice
January 23, 2017  By Steve Edwards
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Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing

Steve Edwards on the Daily Astonishments of Raising a Child
June 17, 2016  By Steve Edwards
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