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Table Of Contents
​Section 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing
Chapter 1: The Trailhead
Chapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing

Section 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing
Chapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the World
Chapter 4: Living Maps
Chapter 5: The Writer in Place
Chapter 6: People and Place
Chapter 7: The River Above, the River Below
Chapter 8: The Art of Activism
Chapter 9: A World Larger than Ourselves
Chapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem
Chapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting
Chapter 12: A Trail Guide

Section 3: Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology
Creative Nonfiction


Geologies: An Investigation
Chelsea Biondolillo

Pack Rat
John Daniel

Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning
Camille T. Dungy

Nature Writing by Numbers
David Gessner

Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America
Jennifer Lunden

Burning the Shelter
Louis Owens 

Spring Ends in Bangor, PA
Sean Prentiss

Hell Yeah We Want Windmills 
Erik Reece

The Other Side of Fire
Leslie Ryan

Trapline: An Ojibwe Man's Search for Identity on the Canadian Taiga
David Treuer

Fiction

Family Reunion
Bonnie Jo Campbell 

Border
Alyson Hagy

Cartography
Bonnie Nadzam

Mule Killers
Lydia Peelle

The Caves of Oregon
Benjamin Percy

Like Bread the Light
Joe Wilkins

Poetry

Creation Myth
Elizabeth Bradfield

I Was Popular in Certain Circles 
Gabrielle Calvocoressi

What My Neighbor Tells Me Isn't Global Warming
Todd Davis

Weekly Apocalyptic, or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule
Chris Dombrowski

Resurrection of the Errand Girl 
Nikky Finney

Water Water Water Wind Water 
Juan Felipe Herrera

Migration
Major Jackson

Remembering Minidoka
W. Todd Kaneko

River Keeper
Laurie Kutchins

Emerging View 
Anne Haven McDonnell

Coos Bay
Michael McGriff

Explaining Seafood to My Future Grandkids after the Extinction
Juan Morales

Lewis and Clark Disagree
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Natural World 
G.E. Patterson

Stripping
Sean Prentiss

As a Species Flies from Extinction, Consider the River
Derek Sheffield

Migration of Balling Twine
Julia Shipley

The Feed
M.L. Smoker

Theories of Time and Space
Natasha Trethewey

Seven Devils
Joe Wilkins

Tire Hut: Seaview, Washington
Maya Jewell Zeller

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Praise for Environmental and Nature Writing

​"The planet is in a real crisis--and one good effect is that it seems to be producing ever more wonderful writers about nature and the environment, almost as a human produces antibodies to ward off disease. Here you will find introductions to many of them--and an invitation to join their ranks." -- Bill McKibben, editor of American Earth: Nature Writing Since Thoreau

"I just picked up Environmental and Nature Writing this week. I want to commend you on creating something fantastically useful. I am going to starting issuing this book to High Country News staff and incoming interns and fellows." Brian Calvert, editor-in-chief, High Country News


“Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins' new craft text and anthology, Nature and Environmental Writing, is a writing manual full of provocative prompts and a respectful and informative literary history of the genre we have previously kept in a small box marked “nature writing.” It also includes a discerning multi-genre reader. The book challenges writers to factor into their writing the imprint of place and landscape on the human story. Whether writers adopt this textbook for a classroom setting or embark upon its lessons and inspirations in a self-study, they will surely come away with new and wild ideas about the subtle influences that science, the natural world, and the environmental imagination exert on all of our experiences, memories, and stories.” –  Debra Marquart, author of The Horizontal World 

“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.” –  Poets & Writers


“This is lucid, interesting and highly readable.” –  Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK

​“The sense of historical development coupled with the sensitivity to the changing social and cultural landscapes makes this book useful to a number of audiences and promises to invite even more nature writers to join those already on the trail … Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology includes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and provides a great range of writing from multiple perspectives covering multiple genres. I find the collection useful, as models for writers and as challenges to how we define nature and environmental writing. Prentiss and Wilkins have given us a useful trail to follow … I will use Prentiss and Wilkins's book the next time I teach nature writing.” –  ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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Awards

  • Poets and Writers names Environmental and Nature Writing "Best Book for Writers" for week of April 2, 2017.

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