The thirteenth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! (And my last for a little while as I go on "interview maternity leave.") Rebecca Renner is the author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades, which was named a most anticipated nonfiction book of
Did you know that Shepherd.com asked 1,383 authors for their 3 favorite reads in 2023 and that I was ONE of those 1,383 authors?! Head over to the Shepherd website to see why I chose the three authors/books that I did!
The twelfth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, essayist, and novelist, who has worked as a volunteer in wildlife and raptor rehabilitation. She is the author of The Radiant Lives of Animals, Dwellings: A Spiritual
The eleventh Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Maddalena Bearzi is the author of Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times and Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist, and she is the coauthor of Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. Bearzi
The tenth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Rosanna Xia is the author of California Against the Sea, which examines the future of our vanishing coastline in the face of rising water. She is also an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where
The ninth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Karen Pinchin is the author of Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas. Pinchin is an investigative journalist and trained cook whose work runs in Canadian Geographic, Scientific American, and Hakai Magazine. She
My friend and Narratively editor Jesse Sposato compiled "The Best Writing Advice We’ve Ever Received" and I was honored to be asked by her to contribute some writing advice that has stuck with me over the years. Subscribe to read
The eighth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Gloria Dickie is an award-winning journalist and the author of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future. She is currently a global climate and environment correspondent at Reuters News Agency, based in London. Dickie has written
The seventh Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Author Cat Warren and Solo, a cadaver dog, training near the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina, Friday, July 8, 2011. Cat Warren is the author of What the Dog Knows and What the Dog Knows: Young Readers
There are new reading recs by yours truly up today on The Shepherd! This list is for all you parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and caregivers who need to have hard conversations with little ones about pets dying.