Megan Kaminski

Megan Kaminski is a community-engaged poet and essayist and a professor of environmental studies. Her work explores the intersections of place-based writing, environmental justice, and contemplative practice. She is interested in the ways that place calls us into relationships of care, for the land and for the various human and nonhuman persons (plants and animals) that reside there, and in the ways that call reaches across political and cultural differences. Her work as a writer and scholar illuminates and engages with that call into reciprocity—and invites others into these relationships in their own daily lives. Megan is the author of five books. Her place-based sound, poetry, and art installations have appeared in museums, public gardens, and libraries across the country, and her poetry and essays regularly appear in literary magazines and journals. Her community-engaged research includes three edited volumes of nature poetry and art, as well as hundreds of community workshops, place-based poetry walks, and community readings, talks, and performances, all centered on co-creating with and within our ecosystems towards community connection, healing, and liberatory futures.