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SISTERS OF THE EARTH -- WOMEN'S PROSE & POETRY ABOUT NATURE |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people in addition to those named in the first edition provided invaluable help to me as I compiled this book. I owe special thanks to my colleagues in the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment -- particularly Melissa Walker, Terrell Dixon, Vera Norwood, Scott Slovic, Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, Sean O'Grady, Melody Graulich, Sydney Landon Plum, Dan Philippon, Bridget Keegan, and Greta Gaard -- for research that deepened my understanding of many of these writers. I'm grateful to Tom Edwards for organizing the two American Women Nature Writers conferences in 1998 and 2000 and for sparking me to do further research in the area. The Scribners reference work American Nature Writers, for which I thank John Elder and the writers included therein, was an essential companion in my research. The University of Creation Spirituality and my teachers and mentors there -- particularly Matthew Fox, Marlene Denardo, Shanja Kirstann, Stuart Cowan, Brian Swimme, Larry Edwards, Theodore Roszak, and Starhawk -- provided fertile ground for the expansion of my ecocentric viewpoint. The Earth in Mind training at Naropa University led by Jed Swift and Dominie Cappadonna as well as the Bioneers conferences of the last decade also expanded my vision. Caroline Rose, Maria Melendez, Priscilla High, Jean Troy Smith, Susan Cockrell, Lucia Bettler, Ruth Gendler, Christian McEwen, J. Parker Huber, and Elizabeth Pomada provided stimulating conversation, feedback, encouragement, and food for thought. Fred Courtright and Bette Graber tutored me in permissions matters. For their work on the book's Production, I'm grateful to Eric Martinez, Miriam Stewart, Cathy Slovensky, Mia Risberg, and especially to Marty Asher. Most of all, I thank the writers included here, for caring about what befalls the earth and the next seven generations.
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