Kathryn Aalto

[from author's website]
Based in Exeter, England, for the past twenty-five years, her creative practice has fused nature and culture: being a master teacher of creative nonfiction both live and online; designing classic and contemporary gardens; writing books and essays about the natural world; speaking at hundreds of botanic gardens, museums, libraires, and universities; and leading writing retreats in the United States and Britain.

“I am committed to teaching narrative nonfiction in ways that provide each student with a transformational learning experience,” she writes. “I am guided by a passion for lifelong learning and the ways writing helps reimagine the self, society, and other-than-human life.”

Kathryn is the author of three books including Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World (2020), The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood (2015), and Nature and Human Intervention (2011). She reviews books and is was a literary judge for inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize. Her essays have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Outside magazine, Sierra, Buzzfeed, Resurgence and the Ecologist, and more. Her books have been widely reviewed in print, radio, and digital platforms including National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, BBC Countryfile Magazine, and many more. She has appeared on TV and film.

An experienced arts administrator, she received the Community Revitalization Award as founder and president of the Monroe Arts Council in Washington.