Barbara Hurd is the author of eight books including two books coming out in 2016: Tidal Rhythms: Change and Resilience at the Edge of the Sea (with photographer Stephen Strom) and Listening to the Savage/River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion, Audubon, and others. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, three Pushcart Prizes, five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. Barbara Hurd teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.