Orion Magazine - November-December 2008

Contributors

Ginger Strand

Jason Benjamin Smith

Lisa M. Hamilton

David J. Perlman

Robin Kimmerer

Artist Scott Bailey lives in rural Washington. He is currently exhibiting at Lawrimore Project in Seattle.

Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland. He is the author of nine books of essays and “proems,” most recently Thirsty for the Joy: Australian & American Voices.

James Galvin is the author of seven books of poetry and two of prose. When he isn’t living in Wyoming, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Lisa M. Hamilton is a writer and photographer based in Northern California. Her narrative non>ction book, Deeply Rooted, will be published next spring.

Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books of poetry, >ction, and non>ction and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His next book of poems, In Search of Small Gods, will be published by Copper Canyon in the spring of 2009.

Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based photographic artist whose work has been shortlisted for the 2008 Prix Pictet, a major photographic award in sustainability. A traveling exhibition of his work will visit several museums in the United States next year.

Robin Kimmerer’s book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the 2005 John Burroughs Medal. She is a professor of botany at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and

Forestry, and tends an old farm in upstate New York.

Gary Kohl is a teacher, artist, writer, and gallery owner. He lives in Toronto.

Kathleen Dean Moore is distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University and the founding director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. She is the author of The Pine Island Paradox, and sits on Orion’s board of directors.

Mary Oliver’s most recent books are Red Bird and The Truro Bear and Other Adventures. She has received both a Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a National Book Award. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

David J. Perlman practices law in Philadelphia.

Erik Reece is the author of Lost Mountain. His book An American Gospel is due out in early 2009. He is director of the University of Kentucky’s Summer Environmental Writing Program.