Greta Gaard

Greta Gaard has been practicing mindfulness and writing since 1995, and teaching writing for decades. Initially offering a workshop on “Human Nature, Animal Nature” for the Loft’s Nature & Environmental Writing Conference in 2012, Greta returned to the Loft to offer a full-day workshop on Mindfulness Practices for Writing the Natural World. Her writing has been nourished through writing fellowships from Norcroft: a Feminist Writers’ Retreat in Lutsen, Hedgebrook: a Feminist Writers’ Retreat on Whidbey Island, and the Hopscotch House in Kentucky.

Along with her eco-memoir, The Nature of Home (2007), Greta’s creative work ranges from eco-documentaries on YouTube to scholarly articles, reviews, webinars and podcasts, poetry and creative nonfiction. From her first volume, Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (1993) to her more recent Critical Ecofeminism (2017) and Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies (2022), Greta explores questions of justice, ethics, and compassion through our relationships with our own minds, with other humans, and with multispecies worlds.

She is currently a Professor of English and a recent Fulbright scholar (2022).