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Lillie Gardner

Lillie Gardner is a writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, Delmarva Review, Long River Review and more. She's also an essays reader for Hippocampus Magazine and a contributor at Feminist Book Club.

Book Review: A Darker Wilderness, edited by Erin Sharkey

September 8, 2023 by Lillie Gardner

New this year from Milkweed Editions is a must-read essay collection of powerful Black nature writing. Originated and edited by Erin Sharkey, A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Essays, Gardening, History, Milkweed Press, Nonfiction, Plants, Pollution, Trees

Book Review: From the Caves by Thea Prieto

January 26, 2023 by Lillie Gardner
Book cover of From the Caves featuring a yellow and orange illustration of fire against a black background

The end of the world is not for the faint of heart, and neither is Thea Prieto’s bold and beautiful novella about four humans pushed to the limits of climate …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Fiction, Pollution

Interview with Groundglass author Kathryn Savage

July 25, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
black and white image of author Kathryn Savage

Kathryn Savage is a writer based in Minneapolis whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. She recently chatted …

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Categories Pollution, Q&A

Book Review: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage

June 21, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
book cover for Kathryn Savage's Groundglass, the words around broken fragments

Kathryn Savage’s gorgeous lyric essay Groundglass is a poetic reckoning with environmental pollution and its unavoidable connection to human bodies. In the book, available August 2nd from Coffee House Press, Savage blends tough …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pollution

Book Review: Environment by Rolf Halden

February 18, 2022 by Lillie Gardner

If you were expecting a book called “Environment” to include an inspiring exploration of how trees communicate, poetic scenes of dolphins swimming gracefully through a blue ocean or an examination …

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Categories Bloomsbury, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Sustainability

Interview with Bear Boy author Justin Barker

September 2, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

Justin Barker is an American animal activist, producer, and author of Bear Boy: The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to Be Free. He recently chatted …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Q&A, Veganism

Book Review: Bear Boy by Justin Barker

August 30, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In 1995, thirteen-year-old Justin Barker was begrudgingly browsing a used bookstore with his dad when he came across PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk’s Kids Can Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: HOMES by Moheb Soliman

June 9, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In HOMES, interdisciplinary poet Moheb Soliman traces the intricate borders of the Great Lakes—Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior (HOMES)—and explores the meanings of home, place, and identity in the spaces …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, History, Poetry

Book Review: Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit by Judy Grahn

May 6, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Essays, Insects, Nonfiction, Pets, Plants, Trees

Picture Book Review: A Garden to Save the Birds by Wendy McClure; illustrated by Beatriz Mayumi

March 30, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

Beautifully illustrated, the heartwarming story of A Garden to Save the Birds begins with the “BAP!” of a bird flying into a window. Young Callum and his sister Emmy run outside to …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Children's Books

Book Review: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses)

February 10, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica expertly crafts a horrifying reality that feels too contemporary to be the future. A virus has decimated the world’s animal population. Societies around …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Simon & Schuster, Veganism

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