Environmental and Nature Writing

Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014).Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry (2013) won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.

This book presents an introductory history of nature writing—covering subcategories ranging from pastoral and adventure writing to postcolonial and climate change narratives—and serves as a comprehensive guide to the elements of its craft in essays, stories, and poems. Both veterans and newcomers to environmental and nature writing will find inspiration in the exercises and anthology sections, which include work by Camille T. Dungy, Juan Felipe Herrera, Benjamin Percy, and many others.

• Section 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental WritingChapter 1: The TrailheadChapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental WritingSection 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental WritingChapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the WorldChapter 4: Living MapsChapter 5: The Writer in PlaceChapter 6: People and PlaceChapter 7: The River Above, the River BelowChapter 8: The Art of ActivismChapter 9: A World Larger than OurselvesChapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and PoemChapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is RewritingChapter 12: A Trail GuideSection 3: Nature and Environmental Writing AnthologyCreative NonfictionGeologies: An InvestigationChelsea BiondolilloPack RatJohn DanielTales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things BurningCamille T. DungyNature Writing by NumbersDavid GessnerExposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of AmericaJennifer LundenBurning the ShelterLouis Owens Spring Ends in Bangor, PASean PrentissHell Yeah We Want Windmills Erik ReeceThe Other Side of FireLeslie RyanTrapline: An Ojibwe Man’s Search for Identity on the Canadian TaigaDavid Treuer FictionFamily ReunionBonnie Jo Campbell BorderAlyson HagyCartographyBonnie NadzamMule KillersLydia PeelleThe Caves of OregonBenjamin PercyLike Bread the LightJoe WilkinsPoetryCreation MythElizabeth BradfieldI Was Popular in Certain Circles Gabrielle CalvocoressiWhat My Neighbor Tells Me Isn’t Global WarmingTodd DavisWeekly Apocalyptic, or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space CapsuleChris DombrowskiResurrection of the Errand Girl Nikky FinneyWater Water Water Wind Water Juan Felipe HerreraMigrationMajor JacksonRemembering MinidokaW. Todd KanekoRiver KeeperLaurie KutchinsEmerging View Anne Haven McDonnellCoos BayMichael McGriffExplaining Seafood to My Future Grandkids after the ExtinctionJuan MoralesLewis and Clark DisagreeAimee NezhukumatathilThe Natural World G.E. PattersonStrippingSean PrentissAs a Species Flies from Extinction, Consider the RiverDerek SheffieldMigration of Balling TwineJulia ShipleyThe FeedM.L. SmokerTheories of Time and SpaceNatasha TretheweySeven DevilsJoe WilkinsTire Hut: Seaview, WashingtonMaya Jewell Zeller