A Spiritual Life with Wild Animals - Brenda Peterson - C0607

Brenda Peterson is an award-winning nature writer, memoirist, novelist, and writing teacher. She’s been featured on NPR, and in the New York Times, Orion Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other prestigious magazines and newspapers. She’s the author of more than twenty books for adults and children including Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals (W. W. Norton 2001), Duck and Cover (Backinprint.com 2004), I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth (Da Capo Press 2010) and Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals (Mountaineers Books 2024)

Interview Date: 3/5/2024  Tags: Brenda Peterson, Noah’s Ark, Blue Heron, creation story, Orca Lab, Helena Symonds, animal totems, creation story, creation stories, Animals, Ecology/Nature/ Environment, dreams