Today, we are speaking with Catherine Young. Catherine is author of the environmental memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal and the eco-poetry collection Geosmin (pronounce: Jee’ ohz-min), the Midwest Book Awards Silver Medal winner. Her writing is published in literary anthologies and journals nationally and internationally and her work was solicited for the University of Wisconsin Press anthology The Driftless Reader.

Catherine worked as a national park ranger, farmer, educator, and mother before completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She earned degrees in Environmental Science, Physical Geography, and Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Catherine coaches writing, leads workshops, and records the weekly Landward podcast for WDRT. Rooted in farm life, Catherine lives with her family in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area.

Links:
Website - http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/
Newsletter - catherineyoungwriter@gmail.com (Request to be added)
Podcast - http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/podcasts.html
YouTube presentation on Black Diamonds > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OF2duiIqAU
Book group reading guide > https://www.torreyhouse.org/_files/ugd/ecc6a6_859e4c7bb6614b298dceece765a9f172.pdf
Ekphrasis definition: a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art