The Forest Log is in the early stages of becoming a two-hundred-year collection of writing on the relation of people and forests changing together over time. Started in 2004, the Forest Log includes contributions from more than 70 writers who have participated in the Long Term Ecological Reflections program, which includes three residencies:

  • The Andrews Forest Writers Residency is awarded to creative writers whose work reflects a keen awareness of the natural world and an appreciation for both scientific and literary ways of knowing. There are two application deadlines per year. 
  • The Blue River Fellowships are offered to well-established writers by invitation.
  • Visiting writers, artist, musicians and scholars are occasional residencies by invitation.   

The book, Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old Growth Forest (University of Washington Press, 2016) is a selection of works from the Forest Log edited by Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich, and Frederick J. Swanson. 

2018
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Derek Sheffield (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a poet, visiting faculty member at Central Washington University, and poetry editor of Terrain.org. He is the author of the book Through the Second Skin and of two poetry chapbooks, A Mouthpiece of Thumbs and A Revised Account of the West, which won the Environmental Chapbook Award in 2008. He has earned dozens of poetry awards and honors and has completed previous residencies at Mount St. Helens, the Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest, and elsewhere. His poetry and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Crab Creek Review, The Southern Review, Orion, Terrain.org, and many other publications.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
Lisa Schonberg recording sound in nature
Lisa Schonberg (Visiting Musician) is a composer, percussionist, field recordist, writer, naturalist, environmental artist, and teacher who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on the intersection of ecology and art, and she uses writing, field recording, and music composition to document specific habitats and ecosystems in order to bring attention to endangered species, habitat loss, and other environmental issues. She has an academic and professional background in environmental sciences and entomology, and has studied and performed as a percussionist for most of her life. Among her many projects, she has studied ant acoustics, written percussion compositions in response to logging in Mount Hood National Forest, and written a book and new music in response to endangered bee habitats in Hawaii. Lisa's place-based compositions are performed by her percussion and noise ensemble Secret Drum Band. She co-directs the artist collective Environmental Impact Statement, which asks artists to respond to development on public lands and interjects artist work into environmental policy-making. She is the author of The DIY Guide to Drums, The Hylaeus Project: A Documentation of the Endangered Native Bees of Hawaii, and Fieldguided, a series of books on insects and their habitats.
Forest Log contributions: Pending

2017
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Tom Montgomery Fate (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Beyond the White Noise, a collection of essays, Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir, and Cabin Fever, a nature memoir. His essays have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Orion, Iowa Review, Sojourners, and many other journals and anthologies, and his writings regularly air on National Public Radio and Chicago Public Radio. A graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and of Chicago Theological Seminary, he is currently a professor of English at College of DuPage, in suburban Chicago, where he also lives.
Forest Log contributions: To Stand by a River and Go
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Ellen Bass (Blue River Fellow) is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her book Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) was a finalist for The Paterson Poetry Prize, The Publishers Triangle Award, The Milt Kessler Poetry Award, The Lambda Literary Award, and the Northern California Book Award. Her previous books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) and Mules of Love (BOA Editions, 2002), which won The Lambda Literary Award. She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks! (Doubleday, 1973).

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Holly J. Hughes (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of Sailing by Ravens, coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and editor of the award-winning anthology Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease. Her fine-art chapbook Passings received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2017. She has spent more than 30 summers working on the water in Alaska in a variety of roles, including commercial fishing for salmon, skippering a 65-foot schooner, and working as a naturalist on ships. She currently teaches writing workshops throughout the Pacific Northwest and consults as a writing coach. Visit Holly online.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Vincent Miller (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton. He holds a Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the University of Notre Dame. Miller edited The Theological and Ecological Vision of Laudato Si’: Everything Is Connected (2017), an interdisciplinary textbook written by scholars of theology, ethics, science and policy. His research and teaching bring elements of environmental and cultural studies to theology.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
Kerry Howley (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She is the author of Thrown, a New York Times Notable Book, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and pick for 2014 best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and other venues. Howley is a frequent contributor to New York Magazine, and her work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Bookforum. Visit Kerry online.
Forest Log contributions: Pending

2016
Anne Haven McDonnell (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a poet and assistant faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Santa Fe with her partner and her old dog, and has published poems in The Georgia Review, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Whitefish Review, Fourth River, Crab Creek Review, and Terrain.org. She holds an Interdisciplinary MA degree in Environmental Humanities from Prescott College and has been the recipient of the American Indian College Fund Master’s fellowship with the Mellon Foundation. View some of Anne's poems on her page at Terrain.org.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
Courtney Carlson (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a writer and Assistant Professor at the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. She has studied at both Boston College and Mansfield College, and currently resides in Laramie, Wyoming. 
Forest Log contributions: Pending
Elizabeth Rush (Blue River Fellow) is the author of many books including Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work chronicles communities being irrevocably changed by late capitalist industrialization, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Orion, The New Republic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, Witness, Huffington Post, Frieze, Nowhere, Asian Geographic, The Dark Mountain Project and elsewhere. View some of her work on her website.

Nancy Lord (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north. Among her published books are three collections of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction, including the memoir Fishcamp, the cautionary Beluga Days, and the front-lines story of climate change, Early Warming. She most recently (2016) edited the anthology Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories From The Salmon Project.  Her novel, The Pteropod Gang, is forthcoming (2017) from Graphic Arts/Alaska Northwest Books. View her selected work on her website.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
John S. Farnsworth (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) studies literary natural history and Anglo-American nature writing. He also dabbles in historical ecology, environmental rhetoric, and the history of environmental thought. He teaches Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University, and consults on education for sustainability, especially concerning sustainability-across-the-curriculum programs at the university level. Find a preview of his work on his website.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
Ellen Waterston (Blue River Fellow) is a poet, author and literary arts advocate. She is the author of Vía Láctea: A Woman of a Certain Age Walks the Camino, Where the Crooked River Rises, and a memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, which was rated one of the top 10 books of 2003 by the Oregonian and a WILLA finalist. After 11 years as founder/director of The Nature of Words, a literary arts nonprofit, she passed the baton in 2012 to focus on the Writing Ranch, the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, and her own writing. Founded by Waterston in 2000, the Writing Ranch offers writing workshops and retreats. The Waterston Desert Writing Prize, established in 2014, is awarded annually each June to nonfiction projects concerning deserts anywhere in the world. Waterston is completing a fourth collection of poetry, and is at work on nonfiction examining land use issues in the high desert.
Forest Log contributions: Pending

2015
David Gessner (Blue River Fellow) is a writer, editor, and cartoonist. His books include All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West; Sick of Nature; and Return of the Osprey. Gessner has published essays in many magazines, including Outside Magazine and the New York Times Magazine, and he has won the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading. Visit David online.

Paul Miller (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a composer, multimedia artist, and author. Miller first rose to worldwide fame as hip-hop turntablist "DJ Spooky," and is now a sought-after lecturer and performer at prestigious venues, arts institutions, and universities. He is known for his genre-bending art, catalogue of music, and work in social justice. Miller is a National Geographic Young Explorer, executive editor of Origin Magazine, and founder of the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, a sustainable arts center on the island of Vanuatu. Visit Paul online.
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John Bates (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is the author of seven books on the Northwoods and Upper Midwest, and a contributor to four others. He has worked as a state forest naturalist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and owns Trails North, a naturalist guide service. He also conducts outdoor classes for Nicolet College, the University of Wisconsin Extension, and the North Lakeland Discovery Center. For twenty years he has written a biweekly column, "A Northwoods Almanac" for the Lakeland Times in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Visit John online. 
Forest Log contributions: Tree Math, The Mosses, What Hath God Rot?, Landcestors
T. Geronimo Johnson (Blue River Fellow) is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Johnson has taught writing at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The Prague Summer Program, San Quentin, and elsewhere. His first novel, Hold it ‘til it Hurts, was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award. Welcome to Braggsville, his second novel, follows four UC Berkeley students who stage a protest during a Civil War reenactment in the heart of Georgia. Visit Geronimo online.

Mary Burns (Long-Term Ecoligcal Reflections) expresses her love of northern woodlands and waters in her weavings and writings. Mary's first novel Heartwood is a fantasy/natural history novel for young adults. An award-winning weaver, she weaves custom designed hand-woven rugs and wall pieces. Mary also creates tapestries and felted work that reflect the hues and patterns of the natural world. Visit Mary online.
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Gretel Van Wieren (Long-Term Ecological Reflections)  is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University where her courses focus on religion, ethics, and the environment. She is author of the book, Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration.  Van Wieren is a participant in the Values Roundtable of the New Academy for Nature and Culture, an informal coalition of scholars who have come together to explore a new theory of values for environmental thinking.  Visit Gretel online. 
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Todd Davis (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) teaches creative writing, American literature, and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. He is the author of collections of poetry including Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, and Ripe. His poetry has been featured on the radio by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac and by Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry. His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor's Prize, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. Visit Todd online.

Justin Ralls (Visiting Musician) is a composer, conductor, and writer, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, who believes in the transformative and communal power of music. Tree Ride, a piece for large orchestra inspired by conservationist John Muir, recently won the James Highsmith Composition Award, receiving its premiere by the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra in the Fall of 2013. In addition, Ralls’ works have been performed by a variety of orchestras, soloists, and ensembles both nationally and internationally.  He has personally conducted his work on numerous national and international stages.  Visit Justin online.
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Kathleen Caprario traded the concrete canyons of the New York/New Jersey Metro Area for the real canyons and broad skies of the Pacific NW in the late 1970’s.  She is an artist who has firmly rooted her practice in landscape, identity and the relationship of self to nature as well as an instructor at Oregon State University, Lane Community College and a stand-up comedian. She recently wrote and produced a short film based on her comedy and life, “Mourning After” (19:47), in conjunction with the Shaggy Dog Project and the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA), Eugene which was premiered at the non-juried Short Film Corner at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, France (2014).  Kathleen Caprario exhibits her work regionally and nationally, and she received an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 1989. Artist residences at the Graves’ Foundation (2014, 2009), Playa at Summer Lake (2011), the Jentel Foundation (2007) and the Ucross Foundation (1985), as well as living and working with Aboriginal children in Central Australia (2010) have informed and continue to inspire her work. Visit Kathleen here.
Forest Log contributions: Log Decomp Thoughts..., Bio Diversity...

2014
Thomas Titus (Visiting Writer) left the Pacific Northwest to attend the University of Kansas, where he completed a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics. Tom returned to Oregon and works as a research biologist and instructor at the University of Oregon. His book, Blackberries in July: A Forager’s Field Guide to Inner Peace, describes his return to Oregon. Tom is currently the president of the Eugene Natural History Society and writes a monthly column for their publication Nature Trails. Visit Thomas online.
Forest Log contributions: Denizens of Decay
Erin Halcomb (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is the program manager of the Taft-Nicholson Center, which works to bridge the arts and humanities with the sciences at University of Utah. She has worked in fire suppression, forest restoration, and wildlife biology. But her simultaneous passion for writing, as a unique method for sharing the beauty and value of nature, brought her to the University of Utah. She recently graduated from the Environmental Humanities master's program. In the Centennial Valley, she shares her delight for birds and her desire to protect wide-open spaces.
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Emma Marris (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) writes about conservation, ecology, energy, agriculture, food, language, books and film. Her goal is to find and tell stories that help us understand how to increase the flourishing of both humanity and the rest of the planet’s species, how to move towards a greener, wilder, happier and more equal future. Her stories have appeared in Conservation, Slate, Discover, the New York Times and above all, Nature, where she worked as a staffer for several years. Her first book is Rambunctious Garden.
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Ian Boyden (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) works across multiple media including painting, sculpture, artist's books, photography, site-specific installations, and land art. His work is interdisciplinary, and he often collaborates with a variety of scientists, poets, composers, and other visual artists. His books and paintings are found in many public collections including Reed College, Stanford University, the Portland Art Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Boyden is also a speaker, writer, and curator. He currently serves as the executive director of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art. Visit Ian online.
Forest Log contributions: A Letter to Frederick J. Swanson

John Daniel (Blue River Fellow) is a writer and itinerant teacher in workshops and writer-in-residence positions around the country. His latest book, The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature, won the 2011 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction from Literary Arts. Daniel has won a Pushcart Prize, the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, the Andres Berger Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award. He is chair of PEN Northwest, a regional branch of the writers’ organization PEN American Center, and administers the annual Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency in the Rogue River canyon. Visit John online.
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Frederick H. Swanson (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is the author of Where Roads Will Never Reach: Wilderness and Its Visionaries in the Northern Rockies (University of Utah Press, 2015) and The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies (University of Utah Press, 2011), among others. His books and articles deal with the history, use, and misuse of public lands during the twentieth century, with particular focus on wilderness areas, national parks, and national forests. An editor and publications designer for twenty-five years, he now writes full-time in the foothills of Utah’s Wasatch Range. Visit Frederick online.

D. Allen (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a poet, musician, and artist currently living in Minneapolis, MN, with strong ties to Madison, WI, Durham, NC, and southern Vermont. Using poetic and essayistic forms, D.’s writing explores the body, illness/disability, the natural world, sexuality and gender. Currently, D. is working on Connective Tissue, a collection of poems and lyric essays that uses memory, narrative, and experimental poetic structures to examine the effects of illness on the body. D. has been a writer-in-residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts (October 2013), the Andrews Forest (March 2014), and Write On, Door County! (January 2015); some of their poems have appeared in Make/shift, Our Lives, and The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology. Visit D. Allen online.
Forest Log contributions: Walking Tour , Walking Notes , Gravel Bar

2013
Jeff Fearnside (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a passionate teacher, and his research interests include writing about place, culture, and the natural environment. He has published widely in literary journals and anthologies. National awards for his writing include a Grand Prize in the Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Program and the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize. He lived and worked in Central Asia for four years, first as a university instructor through the U.S. Peace Corps and later as manager of the Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Visit Jeff online.
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Charlotte Austin (Long-Term Ecological Reflections)   is an adventure writer, world traveler, and mountaineering specialist. She walks the walk when she talks the talk in her poems, short stories, articles, and vignettes.  She is a certified and experienced Wilderness EMT, International Mountain Guide, and holds a Level 2 certification from the American Institute for Avalanche Education and Training.  Widely published, she has contributed articles to many regional and national magazines.  In 2013 she co-edited a writer's anthology The Better Bombshell: Writers and Artists Redfine the Female Role Model. Visit Charlotte online.   
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Joseph Bruchac (Blue River Fellow) has been creating poetry, short stories, novels, anthologies and music for over 30 years.  His work is a reflection of his Abenaki Indian heritage and Native American traditions. He is the author of more than 120 books for children and adults. The best selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children and others of his “Keepers” series, with its remarkable integration of science and folklore, continue to receive critical acclaim and to be used in classrooms throughout the country.  
Forest Log contributions: Among the Douglas Firs
Bill Yake (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) now living among the fir and redcedar forests bordering the Salish Sea, was born, raised, and first educated, where eastern Washington pine forests grade into the remnant black hawthorn swales and eyebrows of the Palouse Hills. His poems have been published in books, magazines, and anthologies serving the environmental and literary communities — from Orion to Wilderness Magazine, from Poetry to Open Spaces Quarterly, from Wild Earth to ISLE. They have also been featured on NPR programs, including Krulwich Wonders, and are collected in This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain and Unfurl, Kite, and Veer, both from Radiolarian Press.  Visit Bill here.  

Michael G. Smith (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a very-early retired chemist whose poems are forthcoming or have been published in many literary journals. He has published three poetry books, No Small Things, The Dark is Different in Reverse, and The Dippers Do Their Part, co-authored with Laura Young from their residency at the Spring Creek Project’s Shotpouch Cabin. He conducts workshops on the intersections of poetry, science, mathematics and Nature, and lives in Santa Fe, NM.  Visit Michael online.

2012
James Bertolino (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) taught literature and creative writing for 36 years, and retired from a position as Writer-in-Residence at Willamette University in 2006. His 12th volume of poetry, Ravenous Bliss: New and Selected Love Poems, was published by MoonPath Press in 2014.  His books have issued from presses at Princeton, Cornell, Brown and Carnegie-Mellon University.  Visit James online.
Forest Log contributions: Andrews Forest Poems and Journal Notes
Kristin Berger (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the surrounding suburbs and Northern Michigan. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University, and has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1994. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and co-edited VoiceCatcher 6: Portland/Vancouver Area Women Writers and Artists (2011) with Toni Partington. Kristin is the recipient of writer residencies at The H.J. Andrews Forest, Starkey Experimental Forest and Range, and Playa. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Oregon Book Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit Kristin online.

Sandra Alcosser (Blue River Fellow) is a poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.  A Fish to Feed All Hunger and Except by Nature received the highest awards from the National Poetry Series, Academy of American Poets and Associated Writing Programs. She serves on the graduate faculty of Pacific University and San Diego State Univeristy. 
Forest Log contributions: Strider , Riparian
Kristine Zeigler (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) has spent the past sixteen years as a professional fundraiser finding financial resources to safeguard animals and nature. Her books include The Bark, The Peregrine, and Harvard’s Charles River Review. As Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy in California, Kristine works for the world’s largest environmental nonprofit and raises more than $30 million annually for land and water conservation globally. Visit Kristine online.
Forest Log contributions: How I Met Earth, The Parable of the Pupfish
Tom Leskiw (Visiting Writer) designed and implemented habitat restoration projects for beleaguered salmon and steelhead in the Six Rivers National Forest in northwestern California during his career with the U.S. Forest Service. In retirement, he serves as a board member for a land trust and Audubon Society chapter, conceiving and organizing a Native Plant and Wildlife Garden Tours. Visit Tom online.
Forest Log contributions: Pre-Relevance

2011
Jessica Erica Hahn (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) was born on an old ship off the coast of Florida to globe-trotting parents, but spent much of her life in San Francisco, where she still lives with her nuclear family. Her writing can be found in several literary journals, and she has two self-published books from the 1990s,Transient Ways and Elysian Fields: A Fucked Up Love Story. The novel she's writing about seafaring hippies won the Clark-Gross Award. Visit Jessica online. 
Forest Log contributions: Chop Wood, Carry Water
Carla Wise (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is an environmental and science writer based in western Oregon. She has written on a variety of topics, including forest management, endangered species protection, agriculture, the local foods movement, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and biomimicry. Most of her writing currently focuses on agriculture and climate change. Wisae has a Ph.D. in biology and has worked in natural resource policy, environmental consulting, and plant conservation research. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Oregonian, High Country News, The Huffington Post, and The Utne Reader. Visit Carla online.
Forest Log contributions: Looking for Solice in the Natural World
Brian Turner (Blue River Fellow) is a poet, essayist, biographer and editor. As one of New Zealand's most significant writers on landscape, environmentalism and sport, Turner brings a fresh perspective to nature poetry, and at once aims to be personal but unsentimental in his approach. Brian Turner was appointed as the fourth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2003. His work is frequently anthologized in collections of poetry and literary sports writing. He has published numerous collections of poetry, as well as works of non-fiction.
Forest Log contributions: Where the Forests Breathe
Brenda Peterson (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) curiosity about and respect for nature radiates through her 17 books, which range from her first memoir Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, chosen as a “Best Spiritual Book of 2001,” to three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was chosen by New York Times as Notable Book of the Year. Her memoir, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth was selected by The Christian Science Monitor among the Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010. Visit Brenda online. 
Forest Log contributions: Initial blog postings from Andrews
Karin Gastreich (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) writes tales of ordinary women and the extraordinary paths they choose. The worlds she creates are a strange amalgamation of medieval Europe and colonial Costa Rica, with misty forests, vast savannas, and steamy jungles. They are populated by brave heroines, noble heroes, and twisted villains. Karin's novels blend elements of epic fantasy, historical fiction, and romance. Grounded in traditional fantasy and real history, she crafts a diverse array of compelling male and female characters, weaving the natural world into all her stories.

Carey Bagdassarian (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) teaches in the Chemistry Department at The College of William and Mary. His research interests have meandered over the years, settling, finally, at the interface of art and science. He hopes to create, with his colleague Elizabeth Mead in the Art Department, a reciprocal and emergent dialogue between the two.
Forest Log contributions: Decomposition Study, Hand Tools

2010
Kathleen Heideman (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a writer and artist based in Upper Michigan. Her work investigates landscape, scientific research, and environmental concerns.  Heideman has completed a dozen artist residencies with experimental scientific research stations, watersheds, private foundations, and the National Park Service, including residencies at Apostle Islands, Isle Royale, Voyageurs, Devils Tower, Badlands, and other parks. She is currently at work on a collection of poetry entitled Departments of the Interior. Visit Kathleen online.

Chris Norment (Visiting Scholar) is a professor of environmental science and biology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. His book Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows was nominated for the John Burroughs Medal. Norment earned his PhD in systematics and ecology from the University of Kansas. He has published extensively in ecology, avian breeding biology, grassland ecology, and the ecology of arctic and alpine environments. Visit Chris online.

Jane Hirshfield (Blue River Fellow) eight poetry books include The Beauty (Knopf, 2015) and Come, Thief (2011); other works include two essay collections and four books co-translating the work of world poets of the past. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and eight editions of The Best American Poems. She is a current Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Visit Jane online. 

Elizabeth Farnsworth (Visiting Scholar) is a senior research ecologist and scientific illustrator at the New England Wild Flower Society in Massachusetts, a research associate at Harvard Forest, and senior editor of Rhodora. She has completed hundreds of technical drawings for the award-winning web application, Go Botany. Visit Elizabeth online and see sample illustrations.

John R. Campbell (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) essays and poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Poetry, The Georgia Review, and The North American Review. His book of environmental meditations, Absence and Light, is available from the University of Nevada Press. Campbell has won awards from Poets and Writers, Utah Arts Council, the Fulbright Program, and others. See johnrobertcampbell.com for samples of his writing, images, and music. 
Forest Log contributions: SCOPE: An Andrews Forest Residency
Aaron Ellison (Visiting Scholar) is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at the Harvard Forest, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the departments of Biology and Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific papers, dozens of book reviews and software reviews, and the books A Primer of Ecological Statistics (2004) and A Field Guide to the Ants of New England (2012). Visit Aaron online.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Visiting Writer) is an American Book Award-winning poet whose books include The Year of the Rat; Burn and Streaming; and Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer. She is the editor of the anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies and Effigies II and serves as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work on a film, Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirtiesand a new CD with Rd Klā. Visit Allison online.

Lori Anderson Moseman (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) runs Stockport Flats, a poetry press she founded in the wake of Federal Disaster #1649, a Delaware River flood. Her poetry collections books are Utmost Brevity (forthcoming Spyten Dyvil 2015), All Steel (Flim Forum Press 2012), Temporary Bunk (Swank Books 2006), Persona (Swank Books 2003) and Cultivating Excess (The Eighth Mountain Press 1991).

John Calderazzo (Visiting Scholar) recently retired from 30 years of teaching creative nonfiction workshops at Colorado State University. Mentoring students, many of whom have become friends and fellow writers, has been one of the major joys of his life.  A former fulltime freelance writer, John has written three nonfiction books, a poetry chapbook, co-edited a nature anthology, and published essays, stories, and poems in venues such as Audubon, Orion, High Country News, Best American Nature Writing, and elsewhere. Visit John online. 
Forest Log contributions: Five Poems

2009
Gary Paul Nabhan (Blue River Fellow) is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. He has been been honored as a pioneer and creative force in the "local food movement” and seed saving community by Utne Reader, Mother Earth News, New York Times, Bioneers and Time magazine. Visit Gary online. 

Tim Fox (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) has worked as an owl researcher, vegetation surveyor, archaeological field crew leader and writer in the fir and hemlock forests of the central Oregon Cascades, where he lives with his wife and son. His work has been published in Orion magazine and on the Yes! magazine website. 

Jim Dodge (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is an American novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy, set in a timeless present. He has published three novels, Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction and a collection of poetry and prose, Rain on the River.
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Jerry Martien (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) lives near Elk River, a tributary of Humboldt Bay. He is the author of a collection of poetry,Pieces in Place, a nonfiction book: Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America, and two cd's of music and spoken word, most recently The Road to Heaven. For years Jerry was a visiting poet in rural northern California Schools and later taught poetry and nature writing at Humboldt State University. He has edited and written for ephemeral bioregional rags and has organized and given local readings for three and a half decades.

Rob Hoshaw (Visiting Writer) is the Operations Manager for the Long Tom Watershed Council, a science and community-based watershed protection and restoration non-profit. He completed his B.S. in zoology at North Dakota State University and his MA in environmental studies from the University of Oregon. Visit Rob online.

2008
Thomas Lowe Fleischner (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) , Director of the Natural History Institute and Professor of Environmental Studies at Prescott College, is editor of the anthology, The Way of Natural History, and author of Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons, Desert Wetlands, and numerous articles.  A naturalist and conservation biologist, he was the founding President of the Natural History Network.  Visit Thomas online. 

Scott Russell Sanders (Blue River Fellow) is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A Private History of Awe and A Conservationist Manifesto. The best of his essays from the past thirty years, plus nine new essays, are collected in Earth Works, published in 2012 by Indiana University Press. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, where he taught from 1971 to 2009. Visit Scott online. 

Freeman House (Blue River Fellow) is a former commercial salmon fisher who has been involved with a community-based watershed restoration effort in northern California for more than 25 years. He is a co-founder of the Mattole Salmon Group and the Mattole Restoration Council. His book, Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species received the best nonfiction award from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for quality of prose. He lives with his family in northern California.
Forest Log contributions: Momento Mori, Varieties of Attentiveness
John Elder (Blue River Fellow) is known for his wonderful teaching and for his critical work on nature writing. He is the author most recently of Reading the Mountains of Home and has edited an encyclopedia, American Nature Writers, and (with Robert Finch) The Norton Anthology of Nature Writing. Elder lives in the Green Mountain village of Bristol with his wife Rita. He retired from Middlebury College after teaching English and Environmental Studies there for 37 years. While continuing to sugar in the nearby uplands of Starksboro, he has recently begun to write about the landscape and history of Ireland and about their affinities with those of Vermont.  

Maya Jewell Zeller (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) grew up in rural areas of the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of Rust Fish, a collection of poetry from Lost Horse Press; her nonfiction and poetry appear in Pleiades, West Branch,Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Maya lives in Spokane with her husband and two small children.
Forest Log contributions: Poems from the Andrews Forest
Elizabeth Bernays (Long-Term Ecological Reflections)   is a professor of Entomology at the University of Arizona. She is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. in 1970 at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as a children's book. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals. Visit Elizabeth online.
Forest Log contributions: Of Moisture and Moss
Laird Christensen (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) teaches writing and environmental studies at Green Mountain College, where he directs the graduate program in Resilient and Sustainable Communities. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including Wild Earth, Northwest Review, Whole Terrain, Northern Woodlands, and Utne Reader. His books include Teaching about Place and Teaching North American Environmental Literature. Visit Laird here.

Anita Sullivan (Visiting Writer) is a piano tuner, poet, editor, publisher, gardener, translator, birdwatcher, and rock art enthusiast. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific Lutheran University. In addition to her books, Anita has published many essays, book reviews and poems both off and on line, and her work has been anthologized. Visit Anita online.
Forest Log contributions: Old Growth Forest
Kim Stafford (Visiting Writer) directs the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Having Everything Right and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. His poetry chapbook How to Sleep Cold is forthcoming in fall 2016 from Limberlost Press. He has taught writing in Scotland, Italy, and Bhutan. Visit Kim online. 
Forest Log contributions: Feeding Thought

2007
Mary Evelyn Tucker (Blue River Fellow) is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director with John Grim of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Together they organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989) and The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Kathie Durbin (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) was an award-winning environmental journalist who worked at the Eugene Register-Guard, Willamette Week, the Oregonian and the Columbian of Vancouver. In the course of her career, Kathie wrote three books: Tree Huggers, Tongass, and The Columbia River Gorge: Bridging a Great Divide. A poet and an avid traveller, Kathie loved the Pacific Northwest. 

Christina Lovin (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is the author of What We Burned for Warmth (Finishing Line Press). Further publication credits include: Harvard Summer Review, Diner, Hunger Mountain,The Bark, Missing Mountains, Coal: An Anthology, and other journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of several artists' grants from the Kentucky Arts Council. Visit Cristina online.
Forest Log contributions: Five poems
Joan Maloof (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a scientist, a writer, and the Founder and Director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, a nonprofit organization creating a network of forests that will remain forever unlogged and open to the public.  Her books are, Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest and Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests.  Maloof is a Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University in Maryland. Visit Joan online.
Forest Log contributions: Four poems
Jane Coffey (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a free-lance writer and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her essays and articles have appeared in Orion, Earthwatch, and other publications. Her volunteer activities have includes watershed monitoring and census studies for endangered species. She presently works at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York City. Visit Jane online.
Forest Log contributions: decay, Juxtaposition
Cristina Eisenberg (Visiting Scholar in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014) is an ecologist, research scientist, and writer whose books include The Carnivore Way and The Wolf’s Tooth. She serves as a lead scientist with Earthwatch Institute, as an instructor at Oregon State University and Yellowstone Association, a Smithsonian Research Associate, and on the editorial boards of the Ecological Society of America and Oregon State University Press.  Visit Cristina online.

2006
Kevin McKelvey (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is a poet and essayist who teaches writing, editing, and publishing at the University of Indianapolis. He has held residencies at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and Isle Royale National Park. Part of his book-length sequence inspired by the Charles C. Deam Wilderness Area in Indiana were published in Dream Wilderness, a chapbook. The Indiana Arts Commission awarded him a grant to write poems about Indiana's Wabash River. He lives with his wife and two children in Indianapolis in a house built in 1890. Visit Kevin online. 
Forest Log contributions: Three poems
Bill Sherwonit (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) has called Alaska home since 1982. He has contributed essays and articles to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies and is also the author of 13 books. His most recent books include Living with Wildness: An Alaskan Odyssey and Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness, both published by the University of Alaska Press. Most of Sherwonit’s work focuses on Alaskan subjects, with an emphasis on wilderness adventure, wildlands preservation, environmental issues, natural history, wildlife management, relationship with place, and notions of wildness, including the wildness to be found in and around his adopted home, Anchorage.  Visit Bill online.

Vicki Graham (Long-Term Ecological Reflections) is the author of three collections of poetry, The Hummingbird's Tongue, The Tenderness of Bees, andAlembic, teaches English, Creative Writing, and Environmental Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris.  She divides her time between the Minnesota prairie and the southern coast of Oregon.  Her poems and articles have appeared in Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly, ISLE, EarthLines Magazine, and Seneca Review, among others.
Forest Log contributions: Writings, Debris
Alison Hawthorne Deming (Blue River Fellow) is the author, most recently of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, as well as eight other books of poetry and nonfiction. She is Agnese Nelms Haury Professor of Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program. Visit Allison online.

Terre Ryan (Visiting Writer) is an assistant professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland. “She explores the overlapping trails of national mythology, landscape aesthetics, patriotic discourse, and public policy in her book This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism. Visit Terre online.
Forest Log contributions:

2005
Pattiann Rogers (Blue River Fellow) Pattiann Rogers has published ten books, most recently Generations (Penguin, 2004) and Song of the World Becoming, New and Collected Poems, 1981 - 2001 (Milkweed Editions). This book contains all of her poems previously published in books, plus forty new poems, and line and title indexes. It was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award and was named an Editor's Choice, Top of the List by Booklist.
Forest Log contributions: This Day, Tomorrow, and the Next, Genesis
Scott Slovic (Blue River fellow) is professor of literature and environment and chair of the graduate program in literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. The founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, he has edited ASLE's journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, since 1995. Scott is the author of nearly 100 articles on environmental literature and ecocriticism and is author, editor, or coeditor of thirteen books, including Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing (1992), Getting Over the Color Green (2001), The ISLE Reader (2003), What's Nature Worth? (2004), and Wild Nevada (2005), among others. Much of his work these days explores the connection between narrative language and the expression of environmental values.
Forest Log contributions: Out of Time

2004
Robin Kimmerer (Blue River Fellow) is a mother, botanist, writer and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, where she is the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her writings include Gathering Moss, which was awarded the John Burroughs Medal in 2005 and Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants in 2013. 

Robert Michael Pyle (Blue River Fellow) is a lepidopterist and a professional writer who has published twelve books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. His acclaimed 1987 book Wintergreen describing the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington’s Willapa Hills near his adopted home was the winner of the 1987 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. His books include Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide,Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, and Sky Time in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place. He won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award.