An essay by Professor Nancy Lord will be published in the fall 2012 issue of Ploughshares, one of the most prestigious literary journals in the country.'Ploughshares': Current issue will be available Aug. 15.Ploughshares is based at Emerson College in Boston, Mass. Founded in 1971, each issue is guest-edited by a prominent author. Lord's essay, "My Acid Cruise," appears in an all nonfiction issue guest-edited by Patricia Hampl, best-known for her memoirs and most recently as the author of "The Florist’s Daughter."

Nancy Lord: Writes from her home in Homer, Alaska.Lord, a former Alaska Writer Laureate, teaches in the low-residency graduate writing program at UAA. She is the author of three short fiction and five literary nonfiction books, including most recently "Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North." She is currently working on a novel set among ocean scientists and controversy in a near future.

The issue featuring Lord's essay is available beginning Aug. 15 in print, and electronically for Kindle and Nook. Visit Pshares.org for more details.