Creative Writing

Editors Ben A. Minteer and Jonathan B. Losos bring together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts. Read more

Part poet, part anthropologist, Caroline Harper New digs into dark places—a cave, a womb, a hurricane—to trace how violence born of devotion manifests not only in our human relationships, but also in our connections to the natural and animal worlds. Read more

By Kira Jane Buxton. S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. Read more

Terry Tempest Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of Refuge and the memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. Read more

Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. Read more

A story-teller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger weaves the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Read more

Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. by Sharona Muir. Read more

From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose. Read more

A sweet, tender middle-grade story of two boys finding first love with each other over a seaside summer by Will Taylor. Read more

In the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland—weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meeting of sea and shore into the region's mythologies. Read more

A timeless collection of hundreds of poems by Walt Whitman that resonate to the American spirit.   Read more

A beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolor illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, charms of protection. Read more

From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. Read more

Curated by Grist, Metamorphosis is a visionary and speculative collection. Immersive, thought-provoking, and often surprising, these stories serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help us envision a tomorrow in which we flourish and thrive. Read more

Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside by Téa Obreht is a novel about the stories we tell—and the stories we refuse to tell—to make sense of where we came from and who we hope we might become. Read more

By Jean Craighead George. Ages 8-11 years. Read more