Kathryn Miles is an award-winning writer and professor who specializes in theories of place and the role of memory in defining landscape. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in English Literature from the University of Delaware, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from Saint Louis University. Her most recent work has appeared in publications including Best American Essays, Ecotone, PMLA, and Terrain. She is also the author of Adventures with Ari: A Puppy, A Leash, and Our Year Outdoors (Skyhorse/W.W. Norton). Miles has lectured at Harvard University, Antioch New England, Green Mountain College, and for several other schools and organizations. She has taught writing workshops for Audubon, the Orion Society’s climate change program, and the Maine Environmental Writing Retreat. Currently, Miles serves as a scholar for several Maine Humanities Council programs, as director of the Environmental Writing Program at Unity College, and as editor of Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability.