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Fordham has lived in Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, South Korea, and Austria. She has a BA from Southern Adventist University, an MA from Iowa State University, and an MFA from the University of Minnesota.
Fordham teaches creative nonfiction at SUNY Oswego and lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughter.
Wait for God to Notice, a memoir about her childhood in Uganda, is her first book.
At Electric Lit Fordham tagged "seven books to read that offer a sustainable path forward." One title on the list:
The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnonRead about another book on Fordham's list.
In his evocative and well-researched book The Day the World Stops Shopping, journalist J.B. MacKinnon imagines how life would be different if we stopped shopping. Chapter four is titled “Suddenly, we’re winning the fight against climate change.” Shopping, it turns out, is a big reason we’re heating the planet. The gains we make with renewable energy are canceled out by our escalating consumption. Each decade, we buy more and more things, requiring more and more energy. On the day the world stops shopping, however, we not only win our fight against climate change, but we have more time and richer experiences. MacKinnon is clear that his book’s premise is only a thought exercise, yet he is serious about conscious consumption and how it is the key to saving the planet and ourselves.
--Marshal Zeringue
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