The Forest Log is in the early stages of becoming a 200-year collection of writing on the relation of people and forests changing together over time. Started in 2004, The Forest Log encompasses more than 100 people who have participated in the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, including:
The place-based writings you will find here range from journal entries and field notes to polished pieces and published works. 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.
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Tom Spies (Visiting Photographer and Scientist)
spent a highly accomplished career as a forest ecologist with the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station specializing in studies of old-growth forests across the Pacific Northwest region. Key accomplishments include leading synthesis efforts culminating in the book Old Growth in a New World (co-edited with Sally Duncan) and a massive review of the relevant science produced following the signing of the Northwest Forest Plan in 1994 to guide management of federal forests in the range of the northern spotted owl. After retirement he got serious about photography and rekindled his boyhood love of astronomy. In his photographs, he seeks to connect the wonders of the night sky with the otherworldliness of landscapes at night. He especially likes to photograph silhouettes of trees against the dark (but still bright!) starry sky. His first images from the Andrews were made along Frissell Ridge, which forms the eastern boundary of the Andrews Forest.
Forest Log contributions: Frissell Ridge 2020
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David Buckley Borden (Visiting Artist)
is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Using an accessible combination of art and design, David promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David was a 2016/2017 Charles Bullard Fellow (Artist-in-Residence) at the Harvard Forest where he answered the question, "How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?" As a Harvard Forest Associate Fellow, David continues to collaborate with Harvard researchers and to champion a cultural ecology supported by interdisciplinary science-communication. Some of Borden’s recent projects include Hemlock Hospice, a set of large installation pieces that mourn the death of revered hemlock trees, and Warming Warning, which combines art, environmental design, and science communication to convey global climate-change data and spur action.
Forest Log contributions: Research Bubble concept sketch, Research Filter concept sketch, Research Nurse concept sketch, Research Tower concept sketch
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Deirdre Hyde (Visiting Artist)
is a British painter who graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Reading. She has lived in Costa Rica for the past 40 years, where she has collaborated in conservation efforts throughout the region. Her work ranges from illustrations and large-format canvases to educational materials for National Parks, and she explores themes such as climate change and human threats to natural spaces. Her work can be found in private and public collections throughout the world, including at the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, Frank Gehry’s Biomuseo in Panama, and Canning House. In fall of 2019, she is exhibiting her work at PreCOP25, an international meeting preceding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Abruzzo National Park in Italy, Schumacher College in the UK, and Wilson Botanical Garden in Costa Rica.
Forest Log contributions: First Impressions
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Ruby McConnell (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a writer, geologist, and adventuress whose work focuses on nature, the environment, and the relationship between landscape and the human experience. Her experiences as a researcher, activist, and explorer in the wildlands of the western United States led her to write A Woman’s Guide to the Wild, the definitive outdoor guide for all who identify as, or love, women (or just wants to learn how to read a map). Ruby believes that positive outdoor experiences are the key to healthy living and protecting the environment and is committed to breaking down barriers that prevent all kinds of people from being outside. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Grain Literary Journal, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and Mother Earth News, and she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in 2016.
Forest Log contributions: Field Notes from the Digital Forest
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Minal Hajratwala (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a poet, prose writer, and writing coach. She is the author of the award-winning epic Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents, called "incomparable" by Alice Walker and "searingly honest" by the Washington Post. The book won the PEN USA Award and the Lambda Literary Award, among other honors. She is also the author of Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment (poetry) and the Moon Fiji travel guidebook. She edited Out! Stories from the New Queer India (2013) and co-founded The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She graduated from Stanford, was a fellow at Columbia, was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar, and attended the Clarion West workshop in 2019. Her Granta essay “A Brief Guide to Gender in India” was named one of the 10 best pieces of writing on the web for 2015.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Bruce Byers (Visiting Scholar)
is an ecologist, independent consultant, and writer with more than 35 years of professional experience in more than 40 countries. He works at the interface of ecology and sustainable development, combining an academic background in ecology and evolution with extensive practical experience in applied social sciences. Bruce provides ecological consulting services to U.S. government agencies and international and domestic non-governmental organizations on forest management, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and environmental communication and behavior change through Bruce Byers Consulting, his independent consulting business. He writes about his consulting and research in academic journals, reports for consulting clients, and his blog Ecologia. He was the Fall 2018 Howard L. McKee Ecology Resident at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon, where he researched and wrote a book of creative nonfiction essays on the Cascade Head Biosphere Reserve, titled The View from Cascade Head: Lessons for the Biosphere from the Oregon Coast, to be published by Oregon State University Press.
Forest Log contributions: Ten Questions in the Andrews Forest, Explorations in Oregon's Andrews Experimental Forest, More Fun and Philosophy in the Andrews Experimental Forest
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Gavin Van Horn (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
works at the Center for Humans and Nature as the Director of Cultures of Conservation. He is the co-editor of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Wildness: Relations of People and Place (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He edits, curates, and writes for the City Creatures Blog and has published works of creative nonfiction in Orion, Emergence, Undark, Belt magazine, Red Savina Review, and Zoomorphic, among others. His most recent book is The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Claire Giordano (Visiting Artist)
is an internationally published artist and writer whose work connects people, place, and science. Grounded in extensive wilderness experience and years working in the outdoor industry as an environmental educator and in social media marketing, she crafts creative written and visual stories to communicate data, climate change, brand identity, and marketing campaigns. Through creative use of light, shadow, and pattern, her paintings emphasize the broader values of outdoor recreation and our responsibilities as stewards of the environment. Her work was featured in multiple issues of Alpinist magazine, Stay Wild magazine, She Explores, and the Waymaking anthology of women’s stories.
Forest Log contributions: Residency Log, Andrews Experimental Forest
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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: We Could See
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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: Lookout Creek: Eighth Notes (composer comments), Lookout Creek: Eighth Notes (music)
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Molly Sturdevant-O'Donnell (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a writer, editor, and environmental philosophy instructor. Her writing explores themes that are grounded in both the history of natural philosophy and current ecological concerns, such as attention, observation, and memory. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in several places, including Orion, Flyway, Alluvian, Newfound, Kestrel, The Trumpeter, and are forthcoming in Slag Glass City and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2019 Montana Prize in Fiction, and lives and works in the Chicago area.
Forest Log contributions: Field Notes: May 10–22, 2018, Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy Redux: 1668–2018, The Spark
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Matthew Battles (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a non-fiction writer and the associate director of Harvard's metaLAB. His writing and research explores the long-term elements of cultural memory in the form of libraries and archives, and, more recently, the natural world. His most recent book, Tree, explores human relations with arborescent forms of life—not only as sources of shelter, fuel, and food, but as objects of aesthetic interest, metaphors, and companions of uncanny otherness. His writing has appeared in Orion, The American Scholar, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Times.
Forest Log contributions: Cry, They Are Called, Time and the Selva Oscura
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David Paul Bayles (Visiting Artist)
is a photographer who focuses on landscapes where the needs of forests and human pursuits often collide, sometimes coexist, and on occasion find harmony. Some of his projects utilize a documentary approach while others use a more contemporary art practice. He currently lives and photographs in the Coast range of western Oregon. His photographs have been published in numerous magazines, including Orion, Nature, Audubon, Outside, and others. Public collections include The Portland Art Museum, Santa Barbara Art Museum, The Harry Ransom Center, Wildling Museum, and others. His book Urban Forest: Images of Trees in the Human Landscape was chosen by The Christian Science Monitor as one of their seven favorite books of 2003.
Forest Log contributions: Old Growth Dialogue: Magical Realism Meets Real Time Data (art exhibit), Outside of Time | Forest Landscapes
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Ann T. Rosenthal (Visiting Artist)
brings to communities over 30 years’ experience as an artist, educator, and writer. Her work examines the intersections of nature and culture through timely issues, including climate change, toxins in water and food, biodiversity, and biophilia. Ann’s essays on eco/community art have been published in several journals and anthologies, including “Redefining Beauty in the Context of Sustainability” in Regenerative Infrastructures (New York: Prestel, 2013). Her work has been exhibited across the U.S., in Germany and Japan. In 2018, she participated in several group exhibitions and was featured in a solo show at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In May, she co-chaired with Judith Li and presented her work on the panel “At the Confluence of Freshwater Science and the Humanities” for the Society for Freshwater Science annual conference in Detroit. Ann teaches art and art history courses through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh. In 2016, Ann initiated LUNA (Learning Urban Nature through Art), a community-focused art and nature program, partnering with public schools and environmental and community organizations. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999.
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Valorie Grace Hallinan (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a writer, poet, and consulting clinical librarian. She produces From Where I Stand, an audio nature series featured on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments. Her work has appeared in Great Lakes Review, Origins, Library Journal, and other publications. A former editor of educational books for children, Valorie founded the blog Books Can Save a Life, where she features fiction and nonfiction with a strong humanitarian bent and a vision for how we might bring about a better future. She is currently at work on a memoir and lives in central Oregon.
Forest Log contributions: When the ancient forest embraces you
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Callum Angus (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a trans and queer writer who has received fellowships from Lambda Literary and Signal Fire Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in Catapult, The Common, The Offing, BuzzFeed, The Normal School, them, The Millions, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has taught writing at both UMass Amherst and Smith College. Read more of his work on his website.
Forest Log contributions: Broken Contracts in an Old-Growth Forest
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Georgina Parfitt (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a fiction writer and teacher. She was born and raised in Norfolk, England, and moved to the U.S. at 18. She holds a BA in English from Harvard University and an MFA from Boston University. Georgina thinks of fiction as an ecological record capable of conveying natural wisdom through patient observation and care. Her fiction often places an individual animal within its history, environment, and unique community. She has researched and written about elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia, and whales off the eastern coast of Scotland. She hopes her writing can capture moments in places that are changing.
Forest Log contributions: Practicing Disaster
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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).
Forest Log contributions: Fungus on a Fallen Alder at Lookout Creek
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Holly J. Hughes (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
traded in Minnesota corn fields for open waters, spending her early adult years gillnetting for salmon and running tenders in Alaska, returning later to skipper the 65-foot schooner Crusader and work as a naturalist on ships. For the last two decades, she taught interdisciplinary writing courses that focused on natural history and sustainability at a community college in Washington and was a member of the steering committee for the Curriculum for the Bioregion project through Evergreen State College. She’s the author of several books of poetry, including Sailing by Ravens (University of Alaska Press, 2014) and Passings (Expedition Press, 2016), and she co-authored The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World (Skinner House Press, 2012). She also co-edited Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education: Theory & Practice (Routledge, 2016). She currently divides her time between the Chimacum creek watershed and the Indianola beach, consulting as a writing coach and teaching writing and mindfulness workshops throughout the Northwest. View her work online.
Forest Log contributions: A Week in the Andrews Forest in a Changing Season: A Haibun Cycle
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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: A Cathedral Not Made by Hands, Commonweal cover January 2020, Unlikely Connections – Vince Miller and Barry Lopez – The Grace of the Forest
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Adelheid Fischer (Visiting Writer)
is the co-director of InnovationSpace, a sustainable product-development program at Arizona State University. She also leads ASU's biomimicry initiative, which introduces students to the use of biology as a means of sustainable innovation in design, business, and engineering. She serves as assistant director of ASU’s Biomimicry Center. As a writer, Fischer focuses on natural history, ecology, and environmental history. She has written for many publications, including Orion, Conservation, Places, and Arizona Highways. She is the co-author of Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region, winner of a Minnesota Book Award for Nature Writing. With Minnesota ecologist Chel Anderson, she has co-authored North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast. In 2014 she received the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award.
Forest Log contributions: Science of Seeing: Hope and the Thing with Feathers
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Jolie Kaytes (Visiting Writer)
is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Washington State University. Her teaching, writing, and images integrate disciplinary perspectives and focus on recognizing the complexity of landscapes. Jolie’s work has appeared in Fourth River, Spiral Orb, ISLE, Terrain.org, Camas, and elsewhere. She holds a B.S. in Conservation and Resources Studies from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors and Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon.
Forest Log contributions: The Climax, Creep
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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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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: Legacies of Decay
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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
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Connecting the Dots (a chapter from her book "Rising"), Handwritten dedication in "Rising" about the Andrews Forest
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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: Whose Words These Are: Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, Let Them Tell You
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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
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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
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Mary Burns (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Gretel Van Wieren (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Listening at Lookout Creek
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Todd Davis (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: In the Andrews, Language Requirement, Geomorphology, and Logjam on Lookout Creek
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Song of the Most Beautiful Bird of the Forest: Composer’s Note, Song of the Most Beautiful Bird of the Forest: Act 2 Owl Scene
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Kathleen Caprario (Visiting Artist)
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 1970s. 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, 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. Visit Kathleen here.
Forest Log contributions: Log Decomp Thoughts..., Bio Diversity...
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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.
Forest Log contributions: The American Dipper: Superhero Hiding in Plain Sight
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Paul Miller (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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, catalog 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.
Forest Log contributions: Forests: A Parallax View in Music, Heart of a Forest
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John Bates (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
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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.
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Denizens of Decay
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Erin Halcomb (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Emma Marris (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Tending Soil
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Ian Boyden (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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 , Become the Axe Handle
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Frederick H. Swanson (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Field Notes I, Field Notes II, Field Notes III, Afterword, The Deadfall on the 305 Road
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D. Allen (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
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Bob Keefer (Visiting Artist)
grew up in the woods of Alabama, Minnesota, and South Carolina before his family moved to the concrete expanses of Los Angeles when he was eight. As a photographer and artist, he may be trying to recapture the mystery of those childhood forests through a historic art form, hand-colored black and white photography, which combines the cool Modernist process of photography and the more personal art of painting. Along the way he studied history of religion at Harvard and spent three decades as a newspaper arts writer before retiring to spend more time photographing the Northwest. His work has been shown at galleries in Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland, and is in the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection at Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences. He was an artist in residence at Andrews Forest in 2014, and his works grace the cover and interior of the book Forest Under Story with writings from the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program.
Forest Log contributions: H.J. Andrews Forest photographs, Sparky in the Woods
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Bill Yake (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Small Animal Survey Notes, Science Mind, Literal Mind, Forests and People: A Meandering Long-Term Ecological Reflection on changing relationships between forests and human culture, Slough, Decay, and the Odor of Soil - The Video (2011), Forest Breakfast, Confronting Tenacious Forests on Steep Slopes While Considering the Medicinal Yew, Encountering the Owl, Encounters with Forest People , Half the Forest is Night , To Fungi & Their Hosts- the Intimates
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Michael G. Smith (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Raw Data From H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest; March 24 - April 7, 2013, Ancient Fir, Climbing, Wayfarer Wanders Into the Fractal Forest, Logjam Hydrodynamics, Alder Leaves with photo by Laura Young, Love in the Forest of Science, Old Growth Takuhatsu, wild, When Earth and Sky Intermingle: Science and Poetry
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Jeff Fearnside (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Charlotte Austin (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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 writers anthology, The Better Bombshell: Writers and Artists Redefine the Female Role Model. Visit Charlotte online.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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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
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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 University.
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Kristine Zeigler (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
has spent the past 16 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
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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
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Andrew C. Gottlieb (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
writes book reviews, essays, fiction, interviews, memoir, and poetry. His work has appeared in many literary journals and online magazines, including the American Literary Review, Arts & Letters, Bellevue Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Flyfish Journal, ISLE, Mississippi Review, Orion, Poets & Writers, Sierra Nevada Review, Sugar House Review, and Tampa Review. He’s the author of two chapbooks of poems, Flow Variations (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Halflives (New Michigan Press, 2005). In 2010 he won an American Fiction Prize for his short story “Stickmen.” He has taught composition and short story writing at Iowa State University and at the University of Washington, where he received his MA and MFA. He’s currently on the editorial board for Terrain.org and was the reviews editor for five years. Gottlieb has been awarded grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the Seattle-based Artist Trust Foundation, has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and has been writer-in-residence at six different, often wilderness, locations. He completed his first Andrews Forest Writing Residency in 2012 and visited again in 2014.
Forest Log contributions: Considering a River: Lookout Creek, Writing, and a Brief Meditation on Flow, Coyote’s Anthem, Fugue for Old Growth, The Walking Gods, Portrait: Parsing My Wife as Lookout Creek, Journal Entries and Various Works in Progress
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James Bertolino (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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
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Leah Wilson (Long-Term Artist-in-Residence with Continuing Engagement)
received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Institute of Southern California. After earning an Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, she moved to Nevada City in the Sierra Nevada foothills to pursue making art and teaching whitewater kayaking. In 2008, Wilson moved to Eugene, Oregon. A 2012 artist residency at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest introduced her to ecologists working on long-term studies in the forest. That experience, and her interactions with the scientists, relates to her current work. Wilson’s interaction with the forest and its associated ecologists led her to realize that science in general, and ecology in particular, seeks to identify patterns (and changes in patterns) over time. Often, in terms of process and product, the most evident element of her work is repetition, rhythm, and pattern related to water in general, and rivers and streams in particular. Leah is a founding member of Gray Space, a group of Oregon artists, based in the Corvallis, Eugene and Roseburg areas, that fosters creative strength, exchange and exploration. Gray Space explores how art influences place and place influences art. Leah Wilson’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries throughout the West Coast including the Hult Center Plaza in Eugene, Oregon, the Roger W. Rogers Gallery at Willamette University, Cascade Gallery at Portland Community College and Guardino Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Arts Center in Corvallis, Oregon, and Julie Baker Fine Art in Nevada City, California. Her work is in the collections of Oregon State University, Umpqua Community College, Adobe Systems Inc., eBay, Inc., and other corporate and private collections.
Forest Log contributions: Ambient, Beetle Drawings, Human Error, Recompose, Sky/Water I, Sky/Water II, Solstices/Equinoxes
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Kristin Berger (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: H. J. Andrews: Forest Reflections, Forest Clouds
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Jessica Erica Hahn (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Chop Wood, Carry Water
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Carla Wise (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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. Wise 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 Solace in the Natural World
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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
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Brenda Peterson (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
has a curiosity about and respect for nature that 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
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Karin Gastreich (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Reflections, Born of Fire
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Todd Gilens (Visiting Artist)
works in landscape and art, using writing, drawing and photography, and creating site-integrated projects for urban audiences. Developing around existing physical structures, the artworks become metaphors for broader themes such as sunlight and shade, handwriting, population dynamics or water systems. Todd has created projects for transit systems, botanical gardens, arts and conference centers, factories and wilderness areas among others. His work has been acknowledged through residencies, commissions and grants, including from Dumbarton Oaks Library, the National Forest Foundation, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Zellerbach, Warhol and Adobe Foundations. He holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture, teaches workshops, and designs private garden spaces. His website is www.toddgilens.com.
Forest Log contributions: Four poems
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Carey Bagdassarian (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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
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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 thirties and a new CD with Rd Klā. Visit Allison online.
Forest Log contributions: Harp Strings - This poem appears in the book Streaming (Coffee House Press, December 2014) and on the CD by the same name with the band Rd Kla (October 6, 2014).
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John Calderazzo (Visiting Writer)
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 full time 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.
Forest Log contributions: Five Poems
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Lori Anderson Moseman (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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).
Forest Log contributions: Variable Poetic Cruise Andrews Experimental Forest
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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.
Forest Log contributions: On Coming Out of the Desert, and Into the Rain
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Kathleen Heideman (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Andrews Forest residency documented in multiple blog postings
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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.
Forest Log contributions: In the very large, the very small, Thoughts on a triptych for the Andrews Research Station, A triptych for the Andrews Research Station
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Wild Ginger (Orion), For the Lichens (The Atlantic)
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Decomposition and Memory, The Suffocating Embrace of Landscape and the Picturesque Conditioning of Ecology Landscape Journal 2013
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John R. Campbell (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
has published essays and poems 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.
Forest Log contributions: SCOPE: An Andrews Forest Residency
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Clearcut Ironies The Contribution of Reflective Writing to Ecological Awareness, which is a study of the Reflections program (2009 thesis), The Contribution of Reflective Writing to Ecological Awareness at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
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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 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.
Forest Log contributions: Light Gaps/Dark Gaps//Andrews Forest/Tumamoc Hills; Field Notes/End Notes to a Prose Poem
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Tim Fox (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: The Mountain Lion, Primordial Chords, Primordial Chords - July 2014, Barred Owls and Belonging, Identities
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Jim Dodge (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Jerry Martien (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
lives near Elk River, a tributary of Humboldt Bay. He is the author of the collection of poetry Pieces in Place, the nonfiction book Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America, and two CDs 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.
Forest Log contributions: Pacific Dogwood, return of the dead log people, A Ramble in the Andrews, Design, Burl: Envisioning a Vernacular Forest
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Thomas Lowe Fleischner (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is the Director of the Natural History Institute and Professor of Environmental Studies at Prescott College. He 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.
Forest Log contributions: Journal Excerpts, Winter's First Rains, The Mindfulness of Natural History
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Log from a Stay at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Mind in the Forest
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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: Memento Mori, Varieties of Attentiveness
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Purity and Change: Reflections in an Old-Growth Forest
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Maya Jewell Zeller (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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
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Elizabeth Bernays (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a professor of Entomology at the University of Arizona. She is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her PhD 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 more than 200 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
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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
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Laird Christensen (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
teaches writing and environmental studies at Prescott College, where he directs both the MS in Environmental Studies and the MS 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.
Forest Log contributions: The Other Side of the Clearcut, A Tree Falls in the Forest
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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
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Joan Maloof (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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
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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.
Forest Log contributions: The long view: old-growth rain forest food webs Environmental Writing and the Ecology of Hope (Published In: flyway, 15 Oct 2014.)
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Jane Coffey (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is a freelance writer and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her essays and articles have appeared in Orion, Earthwatch, and other publications. Her volunteer activities have included watershed monitoring and census studies for endangered species. She presently works at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York City.
Forest Log contributions: decay, Juxtaposition
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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).
Forest Log contributions: Public Lecture, "The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology," Oct. 26, 2007 to a crowd of about 100 people in OSU Library
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Kathie Durbin (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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 traveler, Kathie loved the Pacific Northwest.
Forest Log contributions: Reflections on change, natural or otherwise: a forest journal
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Christina Lovin (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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 Christina online.
Forest Log contributions: Five poems
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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.
Forest Log contributions: Pending
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Kevin McKelvey (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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
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Bill Sherwonit (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
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.
Forest Log contributions: Field Notes, Reflections on Thrush Songs, Newt Tracks and Old-Growth Stands of Trees
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Vicki Graham (Andrews Forest Writing Resident)
is the author of three collections of poetry, The Hummingbird's Tongue, The Tenderness of Bees, and Alembic, 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.
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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 Alison online.
Forest Log contributions: The Andrews forest Quartet, The Owl, Spotted, The Web, This Ground Made of Trees, Attending to the Beautiful Mess of the World, Old Growth, Owl Watching in the Experimental Forest - A chapter in: Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. p. 195-214. Milkweed editions. Minneapolis, MN. 2014.
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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
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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 eco-criticism and is author, editor, or co-editor 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
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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.
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Robert Michael Pyle (Blue River Fellow)
was the first Andrews Forest Resident. An independent scholar, biologist, and writer, he dwells along a tributary of the Lower Columbia. His 24 books include Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree, Where Bigfoot Walks, Walking the High Ridge, and Mariposa Road, as well as the novel Magdalena Mountain, three collections of poetry, and a flight of butterfly books. He is an Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Forest Log contributions: The Long Haul, Reflections: Field Notes, Journal Entries, Essay, Poems, and Comments, Ascaphus truei
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