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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
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