Biomimicry, Loss, and Building Community: An Interview with Margo Farnsworth
Interview by Sarah Boon About Margo Farnsworth issouri-based naturalist Margo Farnsworth is an expert on biomimicry, the art of imitating nature to solve human problems. She is a speaker,...
View ArticleTalking Recklessly: An Interview with William Stafford’s Family
Interview by Derek Sheffield Introduction If We Ever Die: Revisiting a Conversation with William Stafford’s Family t’s been 15 years since I met with some of William Stafford’s family members,...
View ArticleLives Become Hashtags: An Interview with Vernon Keeve III
Interview by Rochelle Spencer About Vernon Keeve III ernon Keeve III’s home in Emeryville, California, reveals the intersections of nature and technology. A well-tended herb garden surrounds the...
View ArticleOur Ecology of Experience: An Interview with Andrew Yang
Interview by Miranda Trimmier Introduction t would be easy to label Andrew Yang’s work as “art-science.” Yang holds a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology, exhibits multimedia installations worldwide,...
View ArticleMany Edges to Explore: An Interview with Pattiann Rogers
Interview by Tina Kelley Introduction attiann Rogers is a crucial voice in the wilderness, crafting innovative and playful poems that explore nature and the marvels of science. I have been inspired...
View ArticleFrom Gods to Men: An Interview with John Canaday
Interview by David Rothenberg Introduction ohn Canaday has written an extraordinary series of poems in the voices of the real-life characters who were part of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos...
View ArticleCharging the Through Line: An Interview with Arthur Sze
Interview by Ayleen Perry Introduction n fall 2017, poet Arthur Sze keynoted the second annual ECO-Poetry, Technology, and Place conference at Southern Utah University. There, undergraduate honors...
View ArticleThe Shining, Reflective Shield: An Interview with Kathleen Dean Moore
Interview by Miranda Perrone Introduction can pinpoint the moment Kathleen Dean Moore came into my life. I remember stumbling out of an auditorium, awed, hushed, and moved one clear night last...
View ArticleLost Stories: An Interview with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Interview by Kim Steutermann Rogers Introduction met Laurie Gwen Shapiro in Northern California one fall evening. In a cozy courtyard on the University of California-Berkeley campus, I was chatting...
View ArticleQuestions I Dare Ask: An Interview with Amy Irvine
Interview by Andrea Ross Introduction riter and teacher Amy Irvine is the author of three books of nonfiction. Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (North Point Press, 2008) is a memoir...
View ArticleA Wildness in the Design: An Interview with Nicole Walker
Interview by Melissa Sevigny Introduction uthor and creative writing professor Nicole Walker’s recent book Sustainability: A Love Story is a freewheeling tour of the things we all think about when...
View ArticleTaken in by a Wild Bird: An Interview with Tim Dee
Interview by Nancy Campbell “By our rubbish we shall be known. By the gull on our rubbish, likewise.” Introduction uthor, birdwatcher, and radio producer Tim Dee was born in Liverpool, England in...
View ArticleA Reservoir for Our Spirits: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams
Interview by Melissa L. Sevigny “I think those things that threaten to undo us—those acts of undoing actually are our moments of becoming.” Introduction n 1991, in her memoir Refuge: An Unnatural...
View ArticleWomen Writers in the Wild: Lilace Mellin Guignard and Suzanne Roberts in...
“There’s no denying that the baggage we carry—the fear—isn’t just of our own making but handed to us by society and the fact that some people still don’t like to see women alone in the wilderness.”...
View ArticleCross Country: Julie Swarstad Johnson and Patricia Colleen Murphy in...
“When I moved to Arizona from Ohio, I was struck by the feeling that humans had no business living in this climate.” Introduction n giving up one home for another across the continent, we can...
View ArticleNot Otherwise Specified: An Interview with Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman
“She wrote a rather white-hot coal of rage after the terrible summer when Maya was in the Psych Ward. Our daughter shouldn’t have been there…” Introduction by Elizabeth Jacobson arenting is a...
View ArticleBuried Lives and Divided Selves: An Interview with Debra Gwartney
Interview by DJ Lee “Every memoir I love and admire does the same essential work—examining the interior of the person called ‘I’ with one central aim: increased self-awareness.” Introduction hen I...
View ArticlePlace of Solace: An Interview with Pam Houston
It took me some time to understand that gratitude was the right response to almost everything. Introduction Pam Houston’s 1992 collection of short stories Cowboys Are My Weakness was a surprise hit,...
View ArticleHow to Be in Awe: An Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Coming from a place of love can be contagious. Introduction rees, writes Aimee Nezhukumatathil in her debut book of nonfiction World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other...
View ArticleInscriptions of Power Upon the Land: Craig Santos Perez and Eric Magrane in...
Inscriptions of Power Upon the Land: Craig Santos Perez and Eric Magrane in conversation on race, place, atomic legacy, family, and more. The post Inscriptions of Power Upon the Land: Craig Santos...
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