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The Writers
and their Home Grounds


Jeffery Renard Allen
Chicago, and now New York City

Kim Barnes
Clearwater Country in Idaho—its mountains, its
rivers,  and all of its feeding streams

Conger Beasley
Wah-to-yah (“Breasts of the World”) or Spanish Peaks, Colorado

Franklin Burroughs
Bowdoinham, Maine

Lan Samantha Chang
Iowa City, Iowa

Michael Collier
My birthplace, Phoenix, Arizona

Elizabeth Cox
Chattanooga, Tennessee

John Daniel
Upper Long Tom River, inland Coast Range foothills, Oregon

Jan DeBlieu
The Outer Banks, North Carolina

William deBuys
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

Gretel Ehrlich
Wyoming and the central coast of California

Charles Frazier
The Southern Appalachians

Pamela Frierson
Volcano country of Hawai‘i Island

Patricia Hampl
The North Shore of Lake Superior

Robert Hass
The San Francisco Bay Area, where I was born
and grew up and where I now live

Emily Hiestand
Coastal Massachusetts—from Cape Ann to the
Boston Basin—and the American South

Linda Hogan
I relate to Oklahoma strongly, but love my little valley
where I live with my horses in Idledale, Colorado, near
the Red Rocks Park

Stephen Graham Jones
West Texas. More specifically: the Permian Basin.
More specific: a place called Greenwood, about fifteen
 miles east of Midland.

John Keeble
The Interior West. We live in rural eastern Washington.

Barbara Kingsolver
The terminus of Walker Ridge, Holston River watershed, Virginia

William Kittredge
Missoula County, Montana, where I’ve lived for over thirty years, and Lake County, Oregon, where I grew up

Jon Krakauer
Boulder County, Colorado

Gretchen Legler
The little eighty-acre parcel I share with my partner,
Ruth, in the woods near Jay, Maine

Arturo Longoria
The Texas brushlands, Zapata County and Starr County, Texas

Bill McKibben
The mountains on either side of Lake Champlain

Ellen Meloy
The canyons of the lower San Juan River, Utah

Robert Morgan
Southern Appalachians of western North
Carolina, though I have lived in the Finger Lakes
region of upstate New York for thirty-five years, and in
many ways that seems like home also

Susan Brind Morrow
New York State

Antonya Nelson
Route 66

Robert Michael Pyle
Gray’s River, Wahkiakum County, Washington

Pattiann Rogers
A mile east of Wildcat Point, the site
of Kit Carson’s last campfire, Colorado

Scott Russell Sanders
Monroe County, Indiana

Eva Saulitis
Prince William Sound, Alaska

Donna Seaman
The beautiful Hudson Valley in New York State.
My true place is Poughkeepsie.

Carolyn Servid
Sitka, Alaska

Kim Stafford
Columbia River watershed

Mary Swander
Kalona, Iowa

Arthur Sze
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Mike Tidwell
Takoma Park, Maryland

Luis Alberto Urrea
My heart’s home ground is the Front Range
of the Rocky Mountains from border to border

Luis Verano
The South Hills, Eugene, Oregon

D. J. Waldie
Lakewood, a working-class suburb of Long Beach, California, where I still live in the house my parents bought in 1946

Joy Williams
Cascabel, Arizona, and the Ducktrap River, Maine

Terry Tempest Williams
The Colorado Plateau

Larry Woiwode
Southwestern North Dakota