About this item
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
About the Author
Elena Passarello is an actor and writer originally from Charleston, SC. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have appeared in Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Paris Review and the New York Times Book Review, as well as the anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and Little Boxes: Twelve Writers on Television. In 2015, she won the Whiting Award for nonfiction. Her first collection, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 IPPY awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her 2017 collection, Animals Strike Curious Poses, is being reprinted in Italy, Germany, and the UK. Elena lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where she is an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. Her website is www.elenapassarello.com.
