Feel free to contact me to arrange an in-person or virtual reading!
**Special event–5-day writing retreat, October 21-25, at the Acorn Inn in Virginia’s Blue Ridge! See this page for more!**
Past events:
The Age of Deer launch: New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, VA, January 12, 2024
Reading / Q&A with Dr. Angharad Jones of Creswell Crags, UK: Online, January 15
Reading: Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC, January 23
Reading: Taylor Books, Charleston, WV, February 8
Reading: White Whale Books, Pittsburgh, PA, with Andy Moore, February 10
Online talk: Lied Public Library, Clarinda, IA, March 4
Reading: Panorama Natural Burial, Charlottesville, VA, March 16
Panel: Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA, March 21
Reading: Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, April 6, with Emily Raboteau
Reading: People’s Book, Takoma Park, MD, April 17
Reading: Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville, NC, May 7: recording available here
Talk: Arlington Public Library, Arlington, VA, hosted by the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists, May 30
Reading: Bards Alley, Vienna, VA, May 30
Online reading: Ruth Keeler Memorial Library, North Salem, NY: October 9
Panel: West Virginia Book Festival, with Mark Hendricks, Charleston, WV: October 19
Reading: Lane Public Library, Oxford, OH: October 21
Online reading: Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MA: October 28; watch a video here
Online reading: San Francisco Public Library: November 12
Reading: SOMOS, with Christie Green, Taos, NM: November 16
In conversation with poet H.G. Dierdorff at New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, VA, January 24, 2025
Talk: Phipps Conservatory Native Plant and Sustainability Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1
Talk: Washington County Public Library, Abingdon, VA, Sunday With Friends series, February 23
Panel moderator: Words of Healing poets’ panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA, March 21
Online talk: Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, PA, April 9
In conversation with Christie Green at Bluebird Books, Crozet, VA, April 17
In conversation with Christie Green at Oakton Library, Oakton, VA, April 18 (sponsored by Bards Alley)
Reading: Author Hour: Natural World at Stone Soup Books, with Ryan Blosser and Annette Naber, Waynesboro, VA, April 19
Reading and workshop at the Eastern Tennessee State University Spring Literary Festival, Johnson City, TN, April 24
Reading at the Annapolis Book Festival, Annapolis, MD, May 3
Book club at Nelson Memorial Library, Lovingston, VA, May 19
Reading at the Old Dominion University Literary Festival, Norfolk, VA, October 9
Reading at Citizens Library, Washington, PA, November 8,
Online talk: “The Deer Conundrum,” through Mt. Cuba Center, January 21
Williamsburg Book Festival, Williamsburg, VA, March 7, 10:30am
Interviews and news about The Age of Deer:
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Finalist for the Library of Virginia’s Nonfiction Award and People’s Choice Award in Nonfiction
Reviews from the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly , LA Times, Boston Globe, Washington City Paper, Worth, Nature Book Guide, Men’s Health, Ideastream Public Media, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Atlantic Monthly, Dark Mountain, and Firefly Gathering have published excerpts, and Dirt, Orion Magazine, Poets & Writers, Electric Lit, and Lit Hub published related pieces
Listen to interviews on Kirkus Reviews’ podcast, Fully Booked; the Wired to Hunt podcast from MeatEater; Jen Leigh Antill’s Substack, The Outskirts; The Pen and the Sword from KVNF in Colorado; Texas Public Radio’s The Source; the Biophilic Solutions podcast; the Mossy Oak Gamekeepers podcast; All of It with Alison Stewart from WNYC; Your Call on KALW in the Bay Area; WTSQ in Charleston, WV; The Jimmy Malone Show from Cleveland; The Allegheny Front from WESA in Pittsburgh; Inside Appalachia from West Virginia Public Broadcasting; The Sound of Ideas from Cleveland’s Ideastream Public Media; Viewpoints Radio
C-Ville Weekly in Charlottesville, VA has a lovely cover story about the book and podcast.
I served as judge for the Phoebe nonfiction contest this spring: interview on their blog
Nancy Reddy’s newsletter, Write More, Be Less Careful, has an interview
The Next Big Idea Club features five key points from the book
Barnes & Noble names it a Most Anticipated Book of the Month
Kirkus Reviews names it a Best Book of the Month
Indie Next makes it a pick for January 2024
Lit Hub and Amy Brady include it on a a reading list of nature and conservation books