Writers on Record

Julian Hoffman is a nonfiction author who lives beside the Prespa Lakes in Northwestern Greece where he and his wife earn a living monitoring bird species where wind farms have been built or proposed. His first book, The Small Heart of Things, was selected by Terry Tempest Williams as the winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and published in 2013 by the University of Georgia Press. It is a wonderful tale about the relationship between human and nature written in a detailed, breathtaking way. Tempest describes it as "a tapestry of embodied stories born out of the intimate wisdom of sweat and hunger and an earthly intelligence" and it's also described as putting the reader at ease with its description of the natural surroundings of the Prespa Lake area in a way which is comforting and familiar. I would second this comment, adding that this book's details rival any I've read. Julian puts us right in the moment, describing landscapes and occurrences with precision and wonderful wordplay. In part o