Chapter Break with Tamara Dean
An episode of the Midwest Writers Room podcast, hosted by Luella and Ken, titled "Chapter Break with Tamara Dean" was published on May 8, 2025 and runs 22 minutes.
May 8, 2025 ·22m · Midwest Writers Room
Summary
BIO: Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. She writes fiction and nonfiction and teaches creative writing. Her essays and stories have appeared in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, The Progressive, and elsewhere. She’s also the author of The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin and returns to the Driftless area often. ...
Episode Description
BIO:
Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. She writes fiction and nonfiction and teaches creative writing. Her essays and stories have appeared in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, The Progressive, and elsewhere. She’s also the author of The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin and returns to the Driftless area often.
SYNOPSIS:
In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in ways large and small, the challenges of meeting basic needs while facing the ravages of climate change—an experience at once soul-stirring and practical that she recounts in Shelter and Storm.
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