Kathleen Dean Moore is best known for her award-winning books of essays about wet, wild places – Holdfast, The Pine Island Paradox, Riverwalking, and Wild Comfort. Her most recent book is Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (foreword by Desmond Tutu), a call for justice- and compassion-based action against climate change. She is at work on a novel set in SE Alaska. In the winter Kathleen lives in Corvallis, Oregon; in the summer she writes in a cabin where two creeks and a bear trail meet a tidal cove in Tenakee Inlet. Read more about Kathleen at riverwalking.com.