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 and Advanced Creative Nonfiction (2021). 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 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.

• Part I: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing1. The Trailhead2. A Short History of Nature and Environmental WritingPart II: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing3: Seeing the World, Believing the World4: Living Maps5: People and Place6: The River Above, the River Below7: The Art of Activism8: A World Larger than Ourselves9: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem10: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting11: A Trail Guide12: Place-Based ActivitiesPart III Environmental and Nature Writing AnthologyCreative NonfictionFictionPoetryIndex

Praise for the first edition: 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.