GRETEL EHRLICH

“One of the West’s foremost writers on the natural world.” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

Gretel Ehrlich was born on a horse ranch in California and was educated at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She is the author of three books of narrative essays, a novel, two memoirs, three books of poetry, a biography, a book of ethnology, and a children’s book, among others.

Ehlrich's work has been published widely in magazines such as Antaeus, Aperture, Architectural Digest, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Life, National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Orion, Shambhala, The Sun, Time, Tricycle, among many others. Her work has been anthologized in BEST ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY, BEST ESSAYS OF 1988, BEST SPIRITUAL ESSAYS, BEST TRAVEL ESSAYS, THE NATURE READER, NATURE WRITING, and many others.

Ehlrich was a correspondent for NPR’s Day to Day and has reported from Kosovo, the Arctic, and Africa. She wrote and recorded a poem cycle in collaboration with the Siobhan Davies Dance Company at the South Bank Theatre in London. She was a founding member of the UK’s CAPE FAREWELL artists and climate change project and contributed to Cape Farewell’s “THE SHIP” at the British Museum of Natural History in London on issues of climate change.

Ehrlich has been awarded the 2010 PEN Thoreau Award, a Bellagio Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the Harold B. Vurcell Award for distinguished prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Expedition Council Grants from the National Geographic Society for circumpolar travel in the high Arctic.

Ehrlich has spent much of the last twenty years traveling in Greenland and the Arctic. She lives in Wyoming.

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