Contributors

David Abram is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. His essays have appeared in Parabola, The Ecologist, Environmental Ethics, Earth First!, and numerous anthologies.

Elias Amidon is a wilderness guide, teacher, president of the Institute for Deep Ecology and co-editor of the books Earth Prayers, Life Prayers and the forthcoming The Soul of the Desert City.

Lorraine Anderson edited Sisters of the Earth, an anthology of women’s prose and poetry about nature.

Antler is a teacher, poet and the author of Factory and Lost Words. He has been anthologized in Earth Prayers, A New Geography of Poets, Erotic by Nature and Practicing Deep Ecology.

Wendell Berry is an essayist, novelist and poet. Wendell Berry is the autor of more than thirty books. He has received numerous awards, including the T. S. Elliot Award, the Lyndhurst Prize, and the Aitken-Taylor Award for poetry from The Sewanee Review. He lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky.

Robert Bly, teacher, poet and translator, edited American Poetry: Wilderness and Domesticity, The Winged Life (about Henry David Thoreau), and The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy. He is also the author of Iron John: A Book About Men and the collected prose poems, What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?. Robert is deceased.

Robin Boyd, graduate of the Audubon Expedition Institute, has published writings in Green Fare, Yankee, Calliope, Zone J, and other magazines.

Joseph Bruchac is a storyteller and the author of over sixty books, including Iroquois Stories, The Faithful Hunter, and Keepers of the Earth: American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children.

Sedonia Cahill, MA in Psychology, is a founder and director of The Great Round. She wrote The Ceremonial Circle, and is currently working on two books, Wisdom Circles, a handbook of “circle-making,” and Living Your life as a Quest, about the wilderness quest experience. (First Edition only as Sedonia is now deceased.)

Michael J. Cohen, EdD, coordinates Project NatureConnect and, for twenty- seven years, directed the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute. He is the author of seven books, including WellMind, Well Earth: How Nature Works, and Reconnecting with Nature.

Forrest Craver has been an organizer, volunteer and participant in environmental and human rights organizations, such as: World Wildlife Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, The Wilderness Society, Sierra Club, Amnesty International, AIDS Action Council, Native American Rights Fund, and Wingspan: Journal of the Male Spirit.

John Daniel is poetry editor of Wilderness magazine and the author of two books of poems: Common Ground and All Things Touched by Wind. The Trail Home is his collection of essays on nature, imagination, and the American West.

Lauren L. Dasmann, an interviewer and writer, was raised by an ecologist father and grew up in tents in the wilderness.

Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press and the author of Wellspring: A Story from the Deep Country.

Dr. Fred Donaldson is a Native American craftsman, and student and teacher of "the old ways,” an expression of belonging to life on earth. His book, Playing by Heart, designed to train adults to play with children, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

Roger Dunsmore is a long-time teacher of Wilderness and Environmental Studies, American Indian Literature, and Humanities at the University of Montana and has published two volumes of poetry. His book Earth’s Mind: Essays on Native Literature will be published soon.

Doug Elliott is a naturalist, herbalist, storyteller, musician and the author of four books, including Wildwoods Wisdom: Mythic Encounters with the Natural World and Wild Roots: A Forager's Guide to Edible and Medicinal Roots, Tubers, and Rhizomes.

Thomas Lowe Fleischner is a naturalist, conservation biologist, essayist and poet who co-founded the North Cascades Institute and now teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Prescott College.

Steven Foster, PhD in Humanities, co-founded and co-directed Rites of Passage Inc. and currently runs the School of Lost Borders. He is the author of many books, including The Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness and The Roaring of the Sacred River: The Wilderness Quest for Vision and Healing.

Matthew Fox is the director of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality, an Episcopal priest and the author of some fourteen books, including Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.

Lou Gold is a founding member of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots group that serves the protection of ancient forests. He travels the country with a slide show educating people about ancient forests.

Joan Halifax is a cultural ecologist; president of Upaya, a Buddhist studies center of environmental inquiry; the author of Shaman: The Wounded Healer and The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth and the editor of the anthology Shamanic Voices.

Jesse Wolf Hardin (Lone Wolf Circles) is a public speaker, recording artist, wilderness-based teacher, coeditor of Talking Leaves Journal and the author of three books, including Full Circle: A Song of Ecology & Earthen Spirituality.

Steven Harper, teacher and guide for Colorado Outward Bound, National Outdoor Leadership School, Earth ways Wilderness Journeys and Esalen Institute, recently published an essay in Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind.

Gabriel Heilig, poet, essayist and screenwriter who describes himself as a recovering suburban American, is teaching himself to live by his spiritual, moral and emotional instincts.

Bob Henderson, outdoor educator at McMaster University, has published articles in Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, The Trumpeter, and The Journal of Experiential Education.

Chris Hoffman has published three books of poetry: Songs from Dream Canyon, Map & Compass Work of the Spirit, and Humming to Lizards, Listening to Trees.

Joseph Jastrab is a teacher, wilderness guide, and seasoned workshop leader. His men's vision-quest work is featured in his book, Sacred Manhood, Sacred Earth.

Ted Kerasote has written about nature in Audubon, Outside, and Sports Afield. He is the author of Navigations, Bloodties—Nature, Culture and the Hunt and Heart of Home—Essays of People and Wildlife.

Serge King, PhD (Psychology), is the executive director of Aloha International and the author of many works, including Urban Shaman, Kahuna Healing, and Earth Energies.

J. Gary Knowles, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, has employed the out-of-doors as a medium for learning about history, geography, and social and natural science.

Maxine Kumin is a college professor and the author of ten books of poems, including her most recent collection, Looking for Luck, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. Up Country won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1973.

Anne La Bastille, PhD, is an ecologist, advocate of wildlife and wildland conservation and author of six books, including Woodswoman, Women and Wilderness and The Wilderness World of Anne LaBastille.

Dolores LaChapelle authored Earth Festivals, Earth Wisdom and Sacred Land Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep — Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life. She is the director of Way of the Mountain Center.

Belden C. Lane is professor of theological studies and American studies at Saint Louis University and is the author of Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality.

David Lee is a documentary filmmaker, athletics coach, teacher and poet, who recently published My Town, which won the Western United States Book Award for 1995.

Janet Lowe is a freelance nature writer, whose poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Earth's Daughters, and New Letters, and in two collections: First Anthology of Missouri Women Writers and Kansas City Out Loud II.

Christopher Manes is an attorney, editorial adviser to Wild Earth, former associate editor of Earth First! Journal, and author of many journal articles and of the book Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. His writings are included in numerous anthologies.

Brooke Medicine Eagle is an American native earthkeeper, teacher, healer, song writer, ceremonial leader, sacred ecologist, artist and author of an autobiographical book of spiritual teachings, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing. She is also a contributor to many anthologies.

Deena Metzger, healer and author of many books, recently edited (with Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson) Between Species: Women & Animals. She is presently writing The Broken Treaty: A Meditation on Animal Intelligence, Interspecies Etiquette, Elemental Communication and Sound Thinking.

John Miles is a mountaineer, backcountry skier, wilderness nut, teacher and the author of Guardian of the Parks: The History of the National Parks and Conservation Association. He is currently editing an anthology about the North Cascades and a collection of essays about wilderness education.

John P. Milton is the founder of Sacred Passage Wilderness Programs and has authored numerous books and articles on ecology, environmental conservation and inner development.

Judith Minty’s first book, Lake Songs and Other Fears, received the United States Award of the International Poetry Forum. She is the author of three chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, most recently Dancing the Fault.

Roderick Nash is a history and environmental studies professor, and a national leader in the field of conservation, environmental management, and environmental education. He has written more than one hundred essays and ten books, including the well-known Wilderness and the American Mind.

Jim Nollman is the founder of Interspecies Communication Incorporated. He has written four books, including Spiritual Ecology and Dolphin Dreamtime, and has produced several live recordings of wild animals.

David Oates teaches English at Clark College and is the author of Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science and a book of nature poetry, Peace in Exile.

Constance Perenyi has worked as a volunteer at oil spill clinics for two years at HOWL Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic. She has written and illustrated two children s books: Growing Wild: Inviting Wildlife into Your Back Yard and Wild Wild West.

Brenda Peterson is a teacher, writer, the author of three novels and has published two collections of nature essays: Living by Water and Nature and Other Mothers.

Jeff Poniewaz teaches Literature of Ecological Vision at the University of Wisconsin, has authored a collection of eco-poems and meditations. Dolphin Leaping in the Milky Way, and has compiled a many-poet anthology of eco-poems entitled On What Planet—Poems in Praise and Defense of the Earth.

Michael J. Roads is an organic farming consultant, public speaker, metaphysical writer and the author of Talking with Nature, Journey into Nature and Simple Is Powerful.

Anngwyn St. Just, PhD, a somatic adviser, has taught innovative ways of healing generational trauma, such as guided wilderness trips with women and other trips with war veterans.

John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia, which protects rainforests worldwide. He cocreated the “Council of All Beings" workshop, co-authored the book, Thinking Like a Mountain—Towards a Council of All Beings and coproduced the film, Earth First, for ABC TV.

Eric Paul Shaffer teaches American literature and basic English at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan. He has published two books of poetry, Kindling (with James Taylor III) and Rattlesnake Rider, and has written two novels and also two books about his experience living in Okinawa.

Elan Shapiro, MA, is an ecopsychology educator, bioregionalist, and naturalist on the faculties of the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College and the California Institute for Integral Studies.

Gary Snyder built his home in the Sierra Nevada foothils with his family. He has traveled widely, reading, lecturing and working with various groups of environmentalists and indigenous peoples. He is the author of 14 volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island (New Directions, 1974).   

Renée Soule, after completing an MA in ecopsychology, has done tree-painting, rainforest preservation and native habitat restoration. She has plans to teach ecopsychology and facilitate wilderness journeys.

Anne Stine, MA, MFCC, is an experienced psychotherapist, an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a wilderness guide and the founder of Wilderness Rites, where she offers earth-centered rites of passage.

John Stokes runs the Tracking Project, through which he helps to spread awareness about native people and the natural world. His teachings include tracking, traditional survival skills, story, music, dance, and the martial arts.

Kaia Svien is a ceremonialist, writer and community activist. She facilitates "Councils of All Beings” workshops.

James Swan, PhD, is an environmental psychotherapist and educator, writer, actor and musician. He is the producer of five Spirit of Place symposiums and is the author of Sacred Places, The Power of Place, and Nature as Teacher and Healer.

Jed Swift, MA, is an adjunct faculty member at Prescott College, the Naropa Institute and Antioch University, where he teaches Ecopsychology, Deep Ecology, and Transpersonal Psychology in the wilderness. He is also a codirector of Earth Rites, which offers wilderness rites of passage for adults and teens.

Fred Swinney/Graywolf, BSc, MA, is a psychotherapist, philosopher, teacher, author, shaman, and guide. He leads self-healing journeys at Asklepia Retreat and is writir a series of books and articles about his work with dreams and natural healing processe

Diane Sylvain is an artist and writer who works for High Country News in Paonia, Colorado, where she resides.

Bill Weiler represents The Institute for Earth Education and works for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. He coedited the collection The Earth Speaks; wrote Close to the Wind, By Candlelight and Sun: Ceremonies and Celebrations for Today and created book of cartoons: Humor in the Balance: Nature Laughs Last.

Saul Weisberg is an ecologist, writer, mountaineer and executive director of North Cascades Institute. He is the author of From the Mountains to the Sea: A Guide to the Skagit River Watershed and North Cascades: The Story Behind the Scenery.

Willy Whitefeather is a river guide, artist and the author of an outdoor survival handbook for kids.

David Whyte, makes his home in the Pacific Northwest. He travels throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, reading and lecturing, bringing his own and others' poetry to large audiences. He is the author of The House of Belonging (1996), Fire in the Earth (1992), Where Many Rivers Meet (1990) and other books.

Terry Tempest Williams is a Naturalist-in-Residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History. She is the author of Pieces of White Shell—A Journey to Navajoland, Refuge, The Secret Language of Snow, An Unspoken Hunger, and Coyote's Canyon.

Paul Willis has taught writing and literature at Westmont College. He is the author oj a pair of wilderness fantasies. No Chick in the Forest and The Stolen River, and a poetry chapbook, Frog at Midnight.

Monica Woelfel has published writings in Writers’ Forum, North American Review, and the Oregonian. She currently is completing the book, Women's Stories of the Sea, interviews with fisherwomen from around the world.