Lorraine Anderson is a freelance editor, writer, and teacher whose work focuses on encouraging a reciprocal relationship with nature. She served as lead editor of the college textbook Literature and the Environment- A Reader on Nature and Culture (1998) and collaborated with Thomas Edwards on the anthology At Home on This Earth- Two Centuries of U.S. Women's Nature Writing (2002). She holds a B.A in English from the University of Utah and an M.S. in creation sprituality from Naropa University, and lives in Davis, California.
Not only is [Sisters of the Earth] a pleasure; it is relevant and even urgent--politically, aesthetically and spiritually. -- The Women's Review of Books These voices remind, rejoice, bewail, berate--with love, joy, compassion, energy, nerve and outrage--and we'd better pay attention. -Janet Kauffman, author of Places in the World a Woman Could Walk The voices of . . . women--white, black, Native American--sing out in this luminous anthology, which spans centuries, genres, and literary careers.... Taste and sensitivity are evident throughout. - Publishers Weekly Anderson's intelligent preface and headnotes add much to this generous, long overdue, and very welcome collection. - Outside