Julie Zickefoose: Nature Artist & Writer
I am a writer, artist and naturalist at home in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio. Every day, I roam our 80 acre wildlife sanctuary, and every day I find something new. This deep relationship with the land is the wellspring for my writing and art.
Since 1986, I've made a living from natural history illustration and writing. I'm writing and illustrating my own books now, providing commentary for National Public Radio, and bringing the natural world to many readers with a daily web log. I have finally convinced myself that hiking in the woods is my work. Naturally, I love my job.
About Julie's New Book: Letters from Eden
It's hard to say what part of LETTERS FROM EDEN is more effortless and magical – Julie Zickefoose's fluid writing, which paints such vivid pictures of the seasonal round on her family's 80-acre Eden, or the drip and swirl of her watercolors and field sketches, which bring this patch of the Appalachian foothills to surging, riotous, fascinating life. There is joy in this book, and humor and a great deal of wisdom - not the treacly sort that usually sprouts from nature writing, but the clear-eyed wisdom of a woman who knows the land in all its moods, hard and soft by turns, who cherishes the spring song of a bluebird as well as the sting of a copperhead's venom in her finger. LETTERS FROM EDEN is a glorious delight.
– Scott Weidensaul, author of Return to Wild America
