Career
Her books include the memoir Walk on Water, the novel Walking Into the River, and the non-fiction book A World Turned Over, about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966. Her articles have appeared in Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Rolling Stone. Her work has been positively reviewed by The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and TIME Magazine, among others
A number of her nature essays have appeared in several anthologies, including her essays: "Uncommon Waters", "The Gift of Trout", "Headwaters", "A Different Angle", and "Growing Up in Mississippi." She is former editor-at-large of Flyfishing & Tying Journal.
In 1981, Hemingway founded the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition which is "dedicated to recognizing and supporting the work of emerging writers." The competition, which is open to United States. and international citizens, draws between 800 and 1,200 submissions annually from around the United States and other countries. 250 pp. 244 pp.
