Welcome to the only official and authorized web site of essayist Lisa Knopp.
Knopp is the author of Field of Vision, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, The Nature of Home, and Interior Places. Her award-winning creative nonfiction, which explores her home ground in Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska, has been lauded as "reminiscent of Thoreau's introspective nature writing and Dillard's taut, personal prose."
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:02PM My collection of essays, Interior Places, which was published last year by the University of Nebraska Press, is being reviewed in the following journals:
Fourth Genre, ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment), and Western American Literature.
I will post these as they become available -- unless, of course, I don't like what the reviewers say!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 8:03PM My essay about the half-million or so sandhill cranes that gather on the central Platte River each spring was published in the fall 2009 issue of The Iowa Review. This essay will be included in Three Rivers, the book I'm currently working on. Click here for a brief excerpt.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 7:13PM My current book project is Three Rivers: Journeys and Junctures, essays about the Platte, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers. Several of the essays have been published or are forthcoming. You can find more information about them by clicking on the "Current Projects" link to the right.
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 10:29PM Thanks for stopping by! I finally have my own place on the Web but it's still under construction, so please bear with me. I'll be updating this on a somewhat irregular schedule so check in from time to time, and thank you for your support.