From WOOD COUNTY DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY
The community is invited to meet author Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer on Saturday, March 28, at 10 a.m., at Veterans Memorial Building, Bowling Green City Park.
Wood County District Public Library is bringing the acclaimed author and scientist, Kimmerer, to Bowling Green in partnership with BGSU’s In The Round program. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants,” which has earned her wide acclaim.
Kimmerer’s first book, “Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses,” was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and various scientific journals. In 2022, “Braiding Sweetgrass” was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers – the plants around us.
Kimmerer’s newest book, “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World” (November 2024), is a vision for how to orient people’s lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
As a writer and a scientist, Kimmerer’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of people’s relationships to land. She holds a B.S. in botany from SUNY ESF, an M.S. and Ph.D. in botany from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge, and restoration ecology. Kimmerer lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
