The Pine Island Paradox

Kathleen Dean MooreContributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): Eugene, ORKathleen Dean Moore is best known as the author of award-winning books about cultural and spiritual connections to wet, wild places-The Pine Island Paradox (2004), which opens on a sea-washed island in Alaska, Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World (1999), stories from the edge of the sea; and Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water (1995), written about Oregon rivers. Riverwalking won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award; Holdfast won the 2000 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. The Pine Island Paradox was chosen as a Top Ten Northwest Book of the Year by the Portland Oregonian. Her essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in magazines such as Orion, Discover, Audubon, Wild Earth, Hope, and Field and Stream.Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University whom spends her time writing, reading, exploring the wild world around her with friends and family, and speaking to audiences of conservationists, ecologists, and others who love the land and the sea. Her audiences range from National Park Rangers and fisheries biologists to river activists, professional foresters, and young philosophers.