Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer
Distinguished Writers by Year
Since Spring 2003, the program has brought distinguished visiting writers from around the nation to teach environmental and nature writing to graduate students in a semester-long course for the Environmental Studies (EVST) Program. The program honors the writer and teacher William Kittredge and helps students develop their voices and audiences as they write about the natural world and humans’ relationship within it.
The Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writers in EVST also give readings, participate in The Environmental Writing Institute, and contribute to Camas: The Nature of the West, the environmental literary journal produced biannually by graduate EVST students and distributed to writers and other subscribers around the nation. In Spring 2003, the first writer to teach in the program was William Kittredge, the program’s namesake. Since then many of America’s most outstanding writers (several suggested by him) have carried on this legacy:
Kittredge Visiting Writers
Sierra Crane Murdoch: 2023
Yellow Bird
Janisse Ray: 2014
The Seed Underground, Wild Card Quilt, The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
William deBuys: 2015
A Great Aridness, River of Traps, Enchantment and Exploitation
Sharman Apt Russell: 2016
Diary of a Citizen Scientist, Hunger, Songs of the Fluteplayer
Chris Dombrowski: 2017
Body of Water, Ragged Anthem, Earth Again
Richard Manning: 2018
Rewilding the West, Against the Grain, It Runs in the Family
M. Jackson: 2019
While Glaciers Slept, The Secret Lives of Glaciers
Ana Maria Spagna: 2020
Uplake, Testride on the Sunnyland Bus, Now Go Home
Bryce Andrews: 2021
Badluck Way, Down From the Mountain
Latria Graham: 2022
Uneven Ground
William Kittredge: 2003
Owning It All, Hole in the Sky, Who Owns the West
Annick Smith: 2004
Homestead, In This We Are Native, Big Bluestem
Robert Michael Pyle: 2005
The Tangled Bank, Sky Time in Gray’s River, Wintergreen
Kim Todd: 2006
Tinkering With Eden, Chrysalis, Sparrow
Gary Ferguson: 2007
Nature’s Keeper, Hawks Rest, The Great Divide
Terry Tempest Williams: 2008
When Women Were Birds, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Refuge
Craig Childs: 2009
The Apocalyptic Planet, The Secret Knowledge of Water, The Soul of Nowhere
Rebecca Solnit: 2010
Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows, Savage Dreams
David Oates: 2012
What We Love Will Save Us, City Limits, Paradise Wild
Rick Bass: 2013
The Wild Marsh, Why I Came West, The Book of Yaak