Visiting Writers: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Join us as a part of our Visiting Writers in welcoming Lyanda Lynn Haupt to Kalamazoo Valley!

She will be hosting a craft talk at 9 a.m. on March 18 and a reading at 2:15 p.m. in the Student Commons Lounge.

"With her deep intuition and expansive attention as our guides, Lyanda Haupt's gorgeous words create a path to the place where science and spirit meet. It's a barefoot path that wanders through solitudes and into community with frogs, moose, orca and our own wildness," said Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of "Braiding Sweetgrass."

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an award-winning author, naturalist, Eco philosopher and speaker whose work explores the beautiful, complicated connections between humans and the wild natural world. Her newest book is "Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023).

Haupt's writing is acclaimed for combining scientific knowledge with literary, poetic prose. Her previous books include "Mozart's Starling," "The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild," "Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness," "Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks" and "Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds." She is the recipient of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Nautilus Book Award, a finalist for the Orion Book Award and a two-time winner of the Washington State Book Award.

She has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont and served as a seabird researcher for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her essays have appeared in publications including Orion, Discover, Utne, the Los Angeles Times, Times Literary Supplement, Image, Huffington Post, Wild Earth and Conservation Biology Journal. She lives in the mossy green woodlands of Bellingham, Washington.