Recommended by Tom Titus
A novelist, essayist, and poet, I write about landscape, loss, class, family, memory, and the American West. I try to interrogate notions of masculinity and am always paying attention to rural spaces and the rural/urban divide.
I'll read anything Joe Wilkins writes. His is prose and poetry are astonishing renditions of land and sky and people that slide between your ribs, crack you open, and leave you wider than you were.
Join me in a deep dive into wildness and saving all we can--in prose and poetry. I'm the author of Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher, winner of the 2024 John Burroughs Award for distinguished natural history writing.
In luminescent prose, Marina Richie takes a deep literary dive into kingfishers, citizen science, and personal transformation in her book Halcyon Journey.
