Join award-winning authors Lynda Mapes, Jack Nisbet, and Susan Zwinger in a workshop devoted to writing about the environment.  Starting at the Burke Museum and ending at the Center for Urban Horticulture, this one-day program will include classroom and field-based sessions.  Lynda, Jack, and Susan bring unique and complementary perspectives as naturalists, journalists, instructors, and historians who have written deeply and provocatively about landscapes wild and urban.

A new style of writer has begun to explore the relationship between people and place. Their writing brings in not only plants and animals, but also the human inhabitants, past and present, who dwell on the land.  In doing so, they are forging a new way to look at nature and to develop deeper connections to place.

Lynda Mapes has been a daily newspaper reporter for 25 years, including the past 11 years at the Seattle Times, where she specializes in coverage of Indian Country, natural history, and regional environmental news. She is the author of two books, Washington the Spirit of the Land and Breaking Ground, about one of the largest, oldest Indian villages ever discovered in Washington State.

Spokane author Jack Nisbet writes about the intersection of human and natural history. His books include Sources of the River, Purple Flat Top, Visible Bones, and The Mapmaker's Eye. His latest work is The Collector:
David Douglas and the Natural History of the Pacific Northwest, which won a 2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award.

Susan Zwinger is a widely acclaimed writer and teacher. A poet and nonfiction writer, who keeps elaborate illustrated journals, she has written The Hanford Reach, The Last Wild Edge, Stalking the Ice Dragon, Still Wild, Always Wild, and co-authored Women In Wilderness.

$100 registration fee; 10% discount for Burke Members Scholarships for students with valid ID available Lunch provided Sign up soon, as space is limited.

Visit www.burkemuseum.org for more information. To register, call Burke Education at 206-543-5591 or email burked@u.washington.edu