Curriculum vitae
ROGER REAL DROUIN
EDUCATION:
Florida Atlantic University, MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction): May, 2012
Thesis committee: Ayse Papatya Bucak, Andrew Furman, Taylor Hagood.
Rollins College, BA, English. 2002.
EXPERIENCE:
October 2013-current. Founder and Executive Editor, Little Curlew Press, an independent publisher of environmental literary fiction and creative nonfiction.
June 2012-2019. Freelance journalist: Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, Ensia, Grist.org, and Sarasota News Leader.
August 2009-May 2012. Graduate teaching assistant.
Enc 1101, Enc 1102, and CRW 3010 (Introduction to Creative Writing)
Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, Florida.
Taught two sections each semester; read and graded essays; created syllabi and sequence for assignments; conducted individual conferences with students.
September 2007-July 2009. Reporter.
Sarasota Herald Tribune: Sarasota, Florida.
Covered local government in the city of Sarasota for 110,000 circulation daily newspaper.
2004-2006, Reporter; 2006-2007, City Editor
Sarasota Observer: Sarasota, Florida.
Covered local government and wrote weekly news features; coordinated redesign of Yourobserver.com news content; updated Web site weekly; edited stories.
2003-2004. Reporter.
The Villages Daily Sun: The Villages, Florida.
Covered crime and government in Sumter County, Florida.
PUBLICATIONS (a sampling):
National, environmental journalism
“How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands.” Yale Environment 360. (1 November 2016).
“Can Big Data Save the Last of India's Wild Tigers?” (First published at Ensia, January 12, 2015; reposted at Huffinton Post.)
“Monarch Butterflies at the Center of a Continent-Wide Conservation Effort.” Scientific American. (1 October, 2014)
“Conservation: Bat Deterrents. How to keep bats away from wind turbines.” Scientific American (September 2014)
“As Fracking Booms, Growing Concerns About Wastewater.” Yale Environment 360. (18 February 2014).
"8 Ways Wind Power Companies Are Trying to Stop Killing Birds and Bats.” Mother Jones, online. (6 January 2014).
"How the Fracking Boom Could Lead to a Housing Bust." The Atlantic Cities. (19 August 2013)
"Murky History: High levels of lead are encapsulated in the Hudson Bayou's sediment." Sarasota Observer. 28 March 2013.
"In Peril: An Essay on the Everglades Snail Hawk.” Sugar Mule Literary Magazine. Issue No. 39 (Winter 2011). Editorial Review.
"Encounter With a Ghost: An Essay on the Eskimo Curlew.” EarthSpeak Magazine. (Spring 2010). Online and E-Book.
Creative Nonfiction/essay
“Sweet Shade.” The Coachella Review blog. (22 May 2020)
“Island Time.” Fanstastic Floridas. (May, 2018).
“Coffee break.” Whole Terrain: Journal of Reflective Environmental Practice.
(August, 2015)
“To Flat-lands, Remembering a Forgotten Artist. Concho River Review, (Spring issue)
“The Tiny Tracks. A profile of John Muir.” Border Crossing. Vol. 4 (November, 2014)
“Research Notes: No Other Way.” Necessary Fiction. June 15 2012.
“Snow Fort.” Green Silk Journal (Spring 2010). Online.
Novel
No Other Way. Abbeville, South Carolina: Moonshine Cove Publishing, 2012. Paperback and eBook.
Short fiction
"Big flat." Hawai'i Pacific Review. (October, 2015)
“Birds of Dusk.” Necessary Fiction. (forthcoming)
"a line." The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. (September 2014)
“Coffee Break.” MadSwirl. Online. (June 2013).
“Colors Under the Gray.” Potomac Review, special issue The Cabinet. (March 2013).
"Further." Pif Magazine. (January 2013).
“Solitudo County.” Platte Valley Review. Vol. 32, No. 2. Peer Reviewed.
“Thursday Morning.” The Northville Review. (March 2011). Editorial Review.
“This Wild Land.” Grey Sparrow Journal. (January 2011): 30-37. Editorial Review.
“metal guts.” Pindeldydoz. (Summer 2010). Editorial Review.
“Implosion.” The Smoking Poet. (Summer 2010).
“Long Shot Chance.” MadSwirl. (July 2010).
“If the Ross’s Gull Appears.” Leaf Garden Press Vol. 8 (Spring 2010): 27-29.
“When the Fish Breaks Free.” The Litchfield Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (2009); and in
Gloom Cupboard. Issue 115 (2009)
“When the White Light Shines Through the Window.” Canopic Jar Vol. 24 (2010)
Editorial Review.
“Samuel’s Sketch.” MadSwirl. (February 2010).
“When the Hat Fits Well.” Offcourse Literary Journal Vol. 40. Online.
(December 2009). Editorial Review.
“Jamie Love.” Canopic Jar Vol. 18 (2007) Editorial Review.
Literary scholarship
“Cubism in John Updike’s ‘A Sense of Shelter.’” The Explicator. 70:2, 75-77. Peer reviewed.
HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS:
• 2018 John Ringling Tower Fund Grant fellow & residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat.
• 2012 Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper Contest
Agricultural & Environmental Coverage — “$1 million wetlands restoration planned.” With Alex Mahadevan. Sarasota Observer. 21 November 2012. (third place 7,000-15,000 circulation)
• 2011 Writer’s Digest 80th Annual Short Story Competition (Literary Mainstream category). Finalist. Editors Judge.
• 2010 Smoking Poet Annual Short Story Contest. Top Ten finalist for “The Colors Underneath.” Outside Judge.
• 2010 New Millennium Writings Short Story Contest. Final round of judging for “When the Fish Breaks Free.” Outside panel of judges.
• 2009/2010 Fish Publishing One-Page Story Contest. Short List for “Gravel Road.” Editorial Board.
• 2006 Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper Contest
News Story/Gwen Stevenson Memorial Award — “Long Journey to Freedom,” Sarasota Observer (second place, circulation over 15,000)
• 2005 Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, Daily circulation up to 60,000
The Villages Daily Sun:
Daily Deadline — “Bush Country!”(second place)
Explanatory Reporting — “Tracking Trauma in Marion” along with senior writer Curt Hills and graphic artist Mike Wright (second place)
CONFERENCES, READINGS:
Guest Lecture, Ringling College of Art & Design, April 2017: “Narrative Cadence in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Cat in the Rain.’”
"Birds of Dusk: A Reading and Talk on Portraying Nature in Eco Fiction," Reading at Fort Myers Beach Public Library: November 20, 2015.
FAU English Graduate Student Society Fall Reading: October 7, 2011. “Wolf River.”
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Spring Reading: April 15, 2011. “Thursday Morning.”
FAU English Graduate Student Society Spring Conference: March, 2010. “Cubism in John Updike’s ‘A Sense of Shelter’.”
FECA Annual Conference: 2009. “GTAs Guide to the Galaxy: Impressions from a First-Year GTA.”
COURSES I HAVE TAUGHT:
Introduction to Creative Writing (CRW 3010) teaching assistant, Spring 2012
College Writing 1 (Enc 1101), Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011
College Writing 2 (Enc 1102), Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Research assistant to English Professor Dr. Wenying Xu, Summer 2010: Helped conduct research for Dr. Xu’s project: Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theatre, Scarecrow Press, 2013.
EDUCATION:
Florida Atlantic University, MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction): May, 2012
Thesis committee: Ayse Papatya Bucak, Andrew Furman, Taylor Hagood.
Rollins College, BA, English. 2002.
EXPERIENCE:
October 2013-current. Founder and Executive Editor, Little Curlew Press, an independent publisher of environmental literary fiction and creative nonfiction.
June 2012-2019. Freelance journalist: Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, Ensia, Grist.org, and Sarasota News Leader.
August 2009-May 2012. Graduate teaching assistant.
Enc 1101, Enc 1102, and CRW 3010 (Introduction to Creative Writing)
Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, Florida.
Taught two sections each semester; read and graded essays; created syllabi and sequence for assignments; conducted individual conferences with students.
September 2007-July 2009. Reporter.
Sarasota Herald Tribune: Sarasota, Florida.
Covered local government in the city of Sarasota for 110,000 circulation daily newspaper.
2004-2006, Reporter; 2006-2007, City Editor
Sarasota Observer: Sarasota, Florida.
Covered local government and wrote weekly news features; coordinated redesign of Yourobserver.com news content; updated Web site weekly; edited stories.
2003-2004. Reporter.
The Villages Daily Sun: The Villages, Florida.
Covered crime and government in Sumter County, Florida.
PUBLICATIONS (a sampling):
National, environmental journalism
“How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands.” Yale Environment 360. (1 November 2016).
“Can Big Data Save the Last of India's Wild Tigers?” (First published at Ensia, January 12, 2015; reposted at Huffinton Post.)
“Monarch Butterflies at the Center of a Continent-Wide Conservation Effort.” Scientific American. (1 October, 2014)
“Conservation: Bat Deterrents. How to keep bats away from wind turbines.” Scientific American (September 2014)
“As Fracking Booms, Growing Concerns About Wastewater.” Yale Environment 360. (18 February 2014).
"8 Ways Wind Power Companies Are Trying to Stop Killing Birds and Bats.” Mother Jones, online. (6 January 2014).
"How the Fracking Boom Could Lead to a Housing Bust." The Atlantic Cities. (19 August 2013)
"Murky History: High levels of lead are encapsulated in the Hudson Bayou's sediment." Sarasota Observer. 28 March 2013.
"In Peril: An Essay on the Everglades Snail Hawk.” Sugar Mule Literary Magazine. Issue No. 39 (Winter 2011). Editorial Review.
"Encounter With a Ghost: An Essay on the Eskimo Curlew.” EarthSpeak Magazine. (Spring 2010). Online and E-Book.
Creative Nonfiction/essay
“Sweet Shade.” The Coachella Review blog. (22 May 2020)
“Island Time.” Fanstastic Floridas. (May, 2018).
“Coffee break.” Whole Terrain: Journal of Reflective Environmental Practice.
(August, 2015)
“To Flat-lands, Remembering a Forgotten Artist. Concho River Review, (Spring issue)
“The Tiny Tracks. A profile of John Muir.” Border Crossing. Vol. 4 (November, 2014)
“Research Notes: No Other Way.” Necessary Fiction. June 15 2012.
“Snow Fort.” Green Silk Journal (Spring 2010). Online.
Novel
No Other Way. Abbeville, South Carolina: Moonshine Cove Publishing, 2012. Paperback and eBook.
Short fiction
"Big flat." Hawai'i Pacific Review. (October, 2015)
“Birds of Dusk.” Necessary Fiction. (forthcoming)
"a line." The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. (September 2014)
“Coffee Break.” MadSwirl. Online. (June 2013).
“Colors Under the Gray.” Potomac Review, special issue The Cabinet. (March 2013).
"Further." Pif Magazine. (January 2013).
“Solitudo County.” Platte Valley Review. Vol. 32, No. 2. Peer Reviewed.
“Thursday Morning.” The Northville Review. (March 2011). Editorial Review.
“This Wild Land.” Grey Sparrow Journal. (January 2011): 30-37. Editorial Review.
“metal guts.” Pindeldydoz. (Summer 2010). Editorial Review.
“Implosion.” The Smoking Poet. (Summer 2010).
“Long Shot Chance.” MadSwirl. (July 2010).
“If the Ross’s Gull Appears.” Leaf Garden Press Vol. 8 (Spring 2010): 27-29.
“When the Fish Breaks Free.” The Litchfield Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (2009); and in
Gloom Cupboard. Issue 115 (2009)
“When the White Light Shines Through the Window.” Canopic Jar Vol. 24 (2010)
Editorial Review.
“Samuel’s Sketch.” MadSwirl. (February 2010).
“When the Hat Fits Well.” Offcourse Literary Journal Vol. 40. Online.
(December 2009). Editorial Review.
“Jamie Love.” Canopic Jar Vol. 18 (2007) Editorial Review.
Literary scholarship
“Cubism in John Updike’s ‘A Sense of Shelter.’” The Explicator. 70:2, 75-77. Peer reviewed.
HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS:
• 2018 John Ringling Tower Fund Grant fellow & residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat.
• 2012 Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper Contest
Agricultural & Environmental Coverage — “$1 million wetlands restoration planned.” With Alex Mahadevan. Sarasota Observer. 21 November 2012. (third place 7,000-15,000 circulation)
• 2011 Writer’s Digest 80th Annual Short Story Competition (Literary Mainstream category). Finalist. Editors Judge.
• 2010 Smoking Poet Annual Short Story Contest. Top Ten finalist for “The Colors Underneath.” Outside Judge.
• 2010 New Millennium Writings Short Story Contest. Final round of judging for “When the Fish Breaks Free.” Outside panel of judges.
• 2009/2010 Fish Publishing One-Page Story Contest. Short List for “Gravel Road.” Editorial Board.
• 2006 Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper Contest
News Story/Gwen Stevenson Memorial Award — “Long Journey to Freedom,” Sarasota Observer (second place, circulation over 15,000)
• 2005 Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, Daily circulation up to 60,000
The Villages Daily Sun:
Daily Deadline — “Bush Country!”(second place)
Explanatory Reporting — “Tracking Trauma in Marion” along with senior writer Curt Hills and graphic artist Mike Wright (second place)
CONFERENCES, READINGS:
Guest Lecture, Ringling College of Art & Design, April 2017: “Narrative Cadence in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Cat in the Rain.’”
"Birds of Dusk: A Reading and Talk on Portraying Nature in Eco Fiction," Reading at Fort Myers Beach Public Library: November 20, 2015.
FAU English Graduate Student Society Fall Reading: October 7, 2011. “Wolf River.”
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Spring Reading: April 15, 2011. “Thursday Morning.”
FAU English Graduate Student Society Spring Conference: March, 2010. “Cubism in John Updike’s ‘A Sense of Shelter’.”
FECA Annual Conference: 2009. “GTAs Guide to the Galaxy: Impressions from a First-Year GTA.”
COURSES I HAVE TAUGHT:
Introduction to Creative Writing (CRW 3010) teaching assistant, Spring 2012
College Writing 1 (Enc 1101), Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011
College Writing 2 (Enc 1102), Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Research assistant to English Professor Dr. Wenying Xu, Summer 2010: Helped conduct research for Dr. Xu’s project: Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theatre, Scarecrow Press, 2013.
