Adrienne Ross Scanlan is the author of Turning Homeward – Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild (Washington State Book Award Finalist 2017, Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award 2016 Notable Book, and Nautilus Book Award 2016 Silver Medal in the Heroic Journey category).
Scanlan’s nature writing, personal essays, memoirs, and other creative nonfiction explore the repair, restoration, and resilience of nature, spirit, family, and community. She writes from her experience as a naturalist and restoration volunteer, a mother, and a lover of the written word. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Arnoldia, The Fourth River, Pilgrimage, Under the Sun, City Creatures, Hevria, American Nature Writing, Snapdragon, For Love of Orcas, Shark Reef, Cirque, and other journals and anthologies. Her work was recognized as “notable” in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002 and the Best American Essays 2023.
She’s a (sub)urban naturalist, sometime citizen scientist, and a freelance developmental editor and book coach working primarily with creative nonfiction writers. You can learn more about her writing and editing at https://www.adrienne-ross-scanlan.com.
You can find an updated list of her book club visits, workshops, readings, and other events on her website at https://www.adrienne-ross-scanlan.com/book-readings-and-other-events.
