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- Jeff_Biggers abstract "Jeff Biggers (born in 1963) is an American historian, journalist, playwright, and performance artist. He is the author of five books, and co-editor of a sixth. His last book, \"Damnatio Memoriae: A Play, Una Commedia,\" was praised by author Rilla Askew as \"a timeless examination of human rights, human dignity, and what it means to be a \"citizen,\" the play reveals forgotten stories while bringing to life the dilemmas of our modern world, reminding us that, in so many ways, they are one and the same.\" In 2012, Publishers Weekly selected his book, \"State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream,\" as a Top Ten Title in Social Science, \"State Out of the Union\" was praised by Kirkus Reviews as \"masterful at showing how the past is prologue…A timely book, especially with immigration policy playing a major role in the upcoming presidential campaign.”Biggers is a frequent performer and speaker at festivals, theatres, conferences, universities and schools across the country. As the founder of the Climate Narrative Project, he is the Writer-in-Residence in the Office of Sustainability at the University of Iowa. As the grandson of a coal miner from southern Illinois, Jeff Biggers has been a vocal critic of mountaintop removal in Appalachia and reckless strip mining across the nation, as well as poorly enforced black lung and mining workplace safety laws, and the fallacy of \"clean coal\" slogans. Reckoning at Eagle Creek examines the loss of his family's 200-year-old homestead to strip mining, and the historical parallel impact of coal mining on communities and their environment.".