Description: CMarie Fuhrman examines the complexities of history, the sacredness of the land, and the urgent need to protect our wild spaces. These essays resonate with a reverence for Indigenous people, history, and the natural world. They will speak to anyone who has found refuge in nature, wrestled with the past, or dared to envision a brighter tomorrow.
Brief description: CMARIE FUHRMAN is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and coeditor of Cascadia: Art, Ecology, Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published or forthcoming poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals and anthologies including Orion, Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta, and others. She is associate director and director of poetry at Western Colorado University, where she teaches nature writing. She is the director of the Elk Rivers Writers Workshop. A former Idaho Writer in Residence, she lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho with dogs, a fish biologist, and wildness. CMarieFuhrman.com
Review Quotes: Intense and reflective, heart-wrenching and heart-expanding, this essay collection holds contradictory and complex emotions together with tenderness and care. Salmon Weather offers hard-won truths and yet wonder. It is fierce and yet humane. It is honest and yet full of compassion. An ode to all things wild, these essays are written with precision and masterful prose. Readers are welcomed into this wild world--and will leave a changed person.--Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN America award for fiction "author of Three Keys"