About the Book: 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.
About the Author: Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. Her essays and stories have been
published in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story,
Orion, and The Progressive, and she is author of The Human-Powered Home:
Choosing Muscles over Motors. She teaches writing independently and through
writing centers across the nation.
