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Wolf Tree is an ecopsychological memoir-in-essays exploring one woman's relationships with landscapes, animals, and human animals, following threads of self-awareness, consciousness, solitude vs. escapism, ecophysiology, mental health, and the difficulties and rewards of connecting with all those outside our own skins.
About the author
Heather Durham is the author of the 2019 memoir-in-essays, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust, which was selected as a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Nature writing. Heather holds a bachelor of arts in psychology, a master of science in environmental biology and a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction, and currently works behind the scenes at Wilderness Awareness School in the foothills of the Washington Cascades. When not working or writing, she is likely to be found outside with a journal, a field guide, and binoculars, hunting birdsong.
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Wolf Tree is an ecopsychological memoir-in-essays exploring one woman’s relationships with landscapes, animals, and human animals, following threads of self-awareness, consciousness, solitude vs. escapism, ecophysiology, mental health, and the difficulties and rewards of connecting with all those outside our own skins.
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“Wolf Tree is magic; not in the manner of the wide-eyed crystal-kisser, but vibrant and gritty, fecund and restrained, and layered with a forest floor of metaphor and experience revealed from a life lived engulfed in it. She reminds us we humans are noisy animals but then, time and again, reveals the truths we may discover if we approach the world, like so many of our relatives do, in silence. This is a holy book.”
—Chris LaTray, award-winning author of One-Sentence Journal
“Wow. That is the word I spoke aloud over and over while reading Wolf Tree. Durham’s new book is nine kinds of beautiful. Fearless, authentic, raw, glistening, intense, wondering, wandering, untethered, highly original. Wolf Tree is nothing short of stunning.”
—Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
“Wolf Tree is a richly textured mosaic...Through a striking, openly vulnerable, and deeply personal examination of many kinds of relationships runs a tension between solitude and community. As she travels between the unpredictable, often fraught company of other people and the balm of wilderness, Durham wonders, Where, and how, might I belong? In these pages, we are able to live those questions and their accompanying aches and pleasures. Like the sea glass Durham ponders, this book is a true gift.”
—Derek Sheffield, Poetry Editor of Terrain.org and author of Not for Luck
