Writer Taylor Brorby's Oil Boom Stories

Prairie Public Broadcasting | By Bowei

Published October 27, 2014 at 4:39 PM CDT

Writer Tayler Brorby spent three months traveling throughout the Bakken, gathering oil boom stories. And he'll be editing an anthology of creative writing that examines fracking in America.

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