Author! Author! Literary Series: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Part of Bend's annual literary event, this year's speakers thus far have been Anne Lamott and Stephanie Land. If you're interested in attending as a group, RSVP below so we can coordinate a meetup beforehand! Tickets are available on Eventbrite:

Author! Author! Literary Series w/ Robin Wall Kimmerer

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals.

Robin has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. In 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Tickets: General Admission tickets are $35 per event. Preferred tickets are $75 per event. Preferred tickets include access to a private reception with the author and preferred seating within the auditorium.