"Disturbance" Wins Ninth Letter Regeneration Contest
Stephanie Anderson's essay "Disturbance" won the 2022 Ninth Letter/Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative Regeneration Literary Contest. The essay was published in Ninth Letter's Fall 2022/Winter 2o23 issue and came with a $1,000 prize.
OSFN One of 18 Best-Selling Agriculture Audiobooks
As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc – BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on recommendations by thought leaders and experts.
Anderson Awarded $1,000 Grant from Barbara Deming Fund
The Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund recently announced that Stephanie Anderson is one of nine winners of a 2021 Nonfiction Award. The $1,000 grant will be used for research-related travel for Stephanie's next book. The foundation gives grants of $500-$1,500 to individual women writers and visual artists whose work exhibits feminist values. These awards encourage and validate creative women who may not receive recognition from other granting agencies.
OSFN Wins 2020 Nautilus Award
One Size Fits None was a 2020 Nautilus Book Award winner (silver) in the Green Living & Sustainability category. The mission of the Nautilus Book Awards is to celebrate and honor books that support conscious living & green values, high-level wellness, positive social change & social justice, and spiritual growth - better books for a better world.
Anderson Wins 2020 Richard J. Margolis Award
The Richard J. Margolis Award is given annually to a promising new journalist or essayist whose nonfiction work combines warmth, humor and wisdom and sheds light on issues of social justice.
The award honors the life of Richard J. Margolis (1929-1991), a renowned journalist, essayist and poet who gave eloquent voice to the rural poor, migrant farmworkers, Native Americans, aging adults and others whose voices are seldom heard. He also wrote several books for children.
The award combines a one-month residency at Blue Mountain Center, an acclaimed writers' and artists' colony in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, with a $5,000 prize.
Billings Gazette Reviews OSFN
One Size Fits None is agriculture journalist and academic Stephanie Anderson’s engaging and superbly written call to action for farmers and ranchers to go beyond sustainable to regenerative farming — replenishing the earth rather than depleting it. She explains that healthier soils, teeming with bacteria, nematodes, and other organisms yield more nutrient-rich food, benefitting everyone.
OSFN Wins 2019 Midwest Book Award
One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture won a 2019 Midwest Book Award in the Nature category, presented by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MiPA). MiPA's awards program is one of the US's longest-running book awards programs, now in its 31st year.
OSFN is a Finalist for the 2020 High Plains Book Award in Nonfiction
One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture is one of three finalists for the 2020 High Plains Book Award in Nonfiction. High Plains Book Awards recognize regional literary works which examine and reflect life on the High Plains, including the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
How Farms Differ From Factories
"A farm is not a food factory. A factory is an artifact, a human, mechanical product. Its parts and materials are, by design, interchangeable, its function and ends shaped by human economic aims. These things are partially true of the farm—but only partially. If we neglect what makes farming quite different from manufacturing, we do so to the detriment of the ecosystem, including the human beings that live in it. Better to take a cooperative attitude that fits with the natural patterns of the land, flora, and fauna, rather than beat those things with hammer and tongs until they yield the desired amount of the required product. This cooperative way of farming is necessary to rebuild the health of the ecosystems on which we depend, and farmers across the country are demonstrating that this can be done in creative and profitable ways. These, in my reckoning, are the broad contentions of Stephanie Anderson’s new book One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture."
Author Stephanie Anderson to address 4,285 students, largest incoming class ever
Miami University’s Convocation — a special event that welcomes Miami’s incoming first-year class — will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, in Millett Hall.
The Miami community and the public are invited.
Stephanie Anderson, author of Miami’s summer reading program book, One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture,” is the featured speaker.
Great Minds Think Alike
Along with recognizing Dr. Shaffer and Dr. Levy for their work, the Office of Liberal Education, along with the Summer Reading Program, will be holding a special event for those students enrolled in the “Miami Bound: A Day at the Farm,” to meet with Stephanie Anderson before Sunday’s Convocation.
Inside Higher Ed Mentions OSFN in "What the Freshmen Are Reading"
Nationwide, many members of the Class of 2023 are thinking about their college arrivals. Educators hope these new students will find commonality in books assigned to freshmen to read over the summer.
With continued conversations of diversity and racial tensions on college campuses, many of the assigned books focus on issues facing marginalized communities. However, the topics of other books being assigned this summer include everything from the hate speech versus free speech debate to issues surrounding food insecurity.
Miami University Selects One Size Fits None for Summer Reading Program
After careful consideration of many fine suggestions, Miami's Summer Reading Program Committee has selected Stephanie Anderson's One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture, a 2019 publication, for our incoming Class of 2023.
An On-Air Conversation with Stephanie Anderson
Stephanie Anderson chats with radio host Lori Walsh of South Dakota Public Broadcasting about her new book, "One Size Fits None."
Stephanie Anderson on KELOLAND Living
Stephanie Anderson talks to Jeff Kleeman on KELOLAND Living about her new book, "One Size Fits None."
Farm Girl Questions Conventional Agriculture in New Book
Reporters are curious creatures. It comes with the job. For one former Tri-State Neighbor reporter, questions that formed while she was on the job turned into a book.
Spotlight: Alumni Author Series at Augustana's Mikkelsen Library
"Stephanie Anderson (2009): Stephanie grew up on a farm near Bison, South Dakota before moving to Sioux Falls for college. After graduating with a major in English, she worked for the Tri-State Neighbor for a year. "
One Size Fits None Listed in Top 5 Books on Climate Change
"Looking for some nonfiction to pepper your shelves full of novels? These five new titles are engaging, informative, sometimes distressing but always mobilizing portrayals of the environmental movement. They trace climate change through past, present, and future, and in our opinion they should be required reading for any human living in 2019."
Sweet: A Literary Confection Reviews One Size Fits None
"This work was an awakening for me. Not only is your book organized, clear, enlightening, and thorough, but also it gets at the human element of agriculture, how we play an integral and increasingly powerful part—farmers, consumers, and readers alike. It goes beyond that: it truly makes us care.
One Size Fits None is an engaging work of literary journalism and a testament to how education is the gateway to understanding and change. This kind of education is rare: it’s present. We’re in the moment, using our senses along with the journalist, hearing the voices of the farmers and ranchers, tracing the landscape, smelling the vegetation, soil, and engines, feeling the textures in our hands. And then, from the ground level, we move into larger structures, the “get big or get out” conversations, government policy, and corporation domination."
Grist Journal Reviews One Size Fits None
"Stephanie Anderson’s One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture forwards an old idea repurposed for a century of people wondering what to do to create sustainable food sources. The non-fiction work blends memoir, scholarly argumentation, and interviews to demonstrate that in the face of widespread ecosystem destruction caused, in part, by highly technological practices of consumption, we need a better way of doing argiculture. The idea is a holistic process of farming that privileges the health of the soil, the local economy, and the creation/growth of new life, which Anderson calls regenerative agriculture."
The Daily Yonder Reviews One Size Fits None
"Just when many of us were feeling satisfied, maybe even a little smug, about our personal efforts toward salvaging a sustainable Planet Earth, somebody comes along to humble us. That’s how I reacted upon reading Stephanie Anderson’s One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture."
The Hopper Reviews One Size Fits None
"Even readers who are not directly involved in food production will come away from this book as more informed consumers, able to make better decisions about purchasing the food that sustains us, and with a much deeper understanding of how agricultural production has changed. And how it will—how it must—change again."
One Size Fits None Mentioned in "New Year, New Books: The 14 Best Environmental Books of January" from The Revelator
It’s a new year, and many of us have made our resolutions for the months ahead. Well, here’s one more for you: Resolve to read about the critical environmental issues that will affect us not just this year but in the years to come.
Publishers have you covered for that resolution this month, with a wide array of interesting new books about climate change, wildlife, environmental history and sustainable food. Check out the list below for our picks for the 14 best eco-books of January 2019...
One Size Fits None Mentioned in "14 Best New Sustainable Agriculture Books To Read In 2019"
As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc – BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on public mentions, recommendations, ratings and sentiment.
Foreword Reviews Recommends One Size Fits None
Thomas Jefferson thought of farmers as the nation’s MVPs. He called them “the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous” of our citizens. But Jefferson didn’t live in this time, when 95% of the food and commodities grown in the US come from high-tech growers who plant, tend, and harvest their massive fields without ever touching soil, and Jefferson never could have anticipated that the use of insecticides and fertilizers would deplete that soil to near infertility.
Sweet Lit Interviews Stephanie Anderson
Stephanie Anderson is an author, essayist, and educator of Creative Writing. Her latest work, One Size Fits None, explains the differences between conventional and regenerative agriculture, and incorporates a sense of depth through connecting with farmers around the country. Below, Stephanie relates the relationships of agriculture, what she enjoyed about this creative journey, her beliefs on a weed’s contribution to organic land, and details about a spiritual connection to nature.
One Size Fits None Makes Food Tank’s Fall Reading List
Food Tank is highlighting 19 books about food and agriculture to fall for this season! These books explore food policy, nutrition science, healthy eating, food justice, and the challenges of farming. Readers will be able to immerse themselves in new roles as activists, brewers, chefs, farmers, politicians, and more.
One Size Fits None Mentioned in New Reads for Fall by High Country News
Here at High Country News, we’ve combed through hundreds of titles relevant to the West, mostly from indie presses and other small publishers, to bring you a sampling of the season’s best new reads.
Contributor Spotlight Interview with Midwestern Gothic
What’s your connection to the Midwest, and how has the region influenced your writing?
I grew up on my family’s ranch in western South Dakota, a place I love and respect with people I cherish. The nearest town, Bison, is the subject of “The McFarthest Spot” published here in Midwestern Gothic, but I’ve written more directly about the ranch, my family, and the prairie elsewhere. The region influences my writing primarily by functioning as a center from which many of my essays and stories unfold.