E.N. Couturier is an award-winning journalist and recreational farmer. Organic Matter is her first book. Her work has appeared in numerous Maine news outlets, on local radio and in publications including New World Writing, Peripheries, Eclectica Magazine, FRiGG, and jmww, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She never did go to graduate school.
""E.N. Couturier writes, 'If you don't think you could love a place eventually, you can't survive it.' In her moving, fragmented, essayistic memoir, Couturier has captured viscerally the exhausting, knee-cracking, yet always lively and surprising work on a small farm. This book sneaks up on you--come for the food writing, for the thousands of pounds of cabbage, the spinach growing sweaty in its farmers market bags, and stay for the rousing meditations on faith, family, and making your own way in early adulthood."" -Krys Malcolm Belc, author of The Natural Mother of the Child