Davenport College Master’s Tea
About Ginger Strand
Ginger Strand grew up in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, but mostly on a farm in Michigan. She is the author of the books Flight, Inventing Niagara and Killer on the Road, which traces how violence followed construction of the interstate highway system. She has published essays and fiction in many places, including Harper’s, The Believer, The Iowa Review, The New England Review, as well as This Land and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. A former fellow in the Behrman Center for the Humanities at Princeton, she has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, the Eisenhower Foundation, and the American Antiquarian Society, as well as residency grants from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She lives in New York City, but spends a lot of time on the road.