Amy E. Weldon
Writer. Teacher. Environmentalist. Seeker.
Amy Weldon, an Alabama native, is professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She is the author of The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World (Cascade Books, 2018), The Writer’s Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel (Bowen Press Books, 2019).
More about Amy
I describe my own goals with two interrelated Teaching Verbs: destabilize and rebuild. They aren’t what I do to students—they are what I help students do with their own assumptions, ideas, and skills.
The Cheapskate Intellectual
A journey through matters of spirit, sustainability, and self-reliance
-
“I write books: do books still matter?”
Here’s a post for Luther’s Ideas and Creations blog in which I try to balance pessimism about the future of print with reasons – and there ARE reasons – for hope. (Hint: students.)
Read more -
Eldorado, Iowa in Decorahnews.com: Story below.
Thanks to Decorah News.com’s Ben Gardner (my former Paideia student!) for this lovely story about Eldorado, Iowa and how it came to be.
Read more