Lucas Bessire

Lucas Bessire is an anthropologist, filmmaker and writer and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He was a Ucross Fellow in 2021, spending a month in residence in May. His book Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, published by Princeton University Press in 2021, was shortlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction. The book traces his search for water across the drying High Plains of western Kansas, where his family farmed and ranched for five generations.