Common Read 2022: Braiding Sweetgrass
Biography
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
Biography from https://authorsunbound.com/robin-wall-kimmerer-media-kit, photo by Dale Kakkak
Other works by Robin Kimmerer
- Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 - Planet by Gavin Van Horn (Editor); Robin Wall Kimmerer (Editor); John Hausdoerffer (Editor)ISBN: 9781736862506Publication Date: 2021Five volumes: Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice
- The Colors of Nature by Alison Hawthorne Deming (Editor); Lauret E. Savoy (Editor)ISBN: 9781571313195Publication Date: 2011Includes essay Learning the Grammar of Animacy by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Biological Education: A Call to Action by Kimmer, Robin WallCall Number: online journal articlePublication Date: 2022
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