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Annick Smith is the author of several books, including Homestead, In This We Are Native, Big Bluestem, and most recently Crossing the Plains with Bruno. She produced the prize-winning feature Heartland, and was a founding board member of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Her travel and nature writing, short stories, and essays have appeared in journals such as Audubon, Outside, Islands, Travel + Leisure, Orion, the New York Times, Story, and National Geographic Traveler and have been widely anthologized. She was also the editor of Headwaters: Montana Writers on Water & Wilderness, and coeditor with Susan O’Connor of The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie. She lives in Bonner, Montana. Susan O’Connor is an environmental and arts advocate. She has served on the boards of several art museums, including the Menil in Houston, Texas. She has also been a board member of the Orion Society and the American Prairie Reserve. She cofounded several nonprofits, including Pacific Writers Connection, Ala Kukui: Hana Retreat, Ohana Makamae, and Families First both in Boston and Missoula. She was coeditor with Annick Smith of The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie. She lives in Missoula, Montana. Contents W. S. Merwin, Rain Light Annick Smith and Susan O’Connor, Preface: Keeping the Fire Alive Barry Lopez, Foreword: The Unhearthed HEART Natasha Trethewey, Meditation at Decatur Square Bill McKibben, Heaarth Luis Alberto Urrea, Codex Hogar Andrew Lam, Enchantment Yvonne Owuor, The Fire in Ten Chigozie Obioma, We Will Wait for You Pico Iyer, My Mobile Home Gerur Kristn, Vlusp Alisa Ganieva, Hearth’s in the Highlands Zo Strachan, Small Fires Jane Hirshfield, The Fire EARTH Pualani Kanahele, Kilauea Caldera, My Hearth Sara Baume, Home Waters Carl Safina, Soul on the Tide Sherman Alexie, Ode Gretel Ehrlich, To Live Intizar Husain, New Home Kim Cheng Boey, Home Is Elsewhere: Reflections of a Returnee Kavery Nambisan, The Rent Not Paid Frank Stewart, What It Will Bear Terry Tempest Williams and Sarah Hedden, A Tea Ceremony for Public Lands Ameena Hussein, A Staircase with a View ART Sebastio Salgado, from Genesis (portfolio) Anthony Birch, Colours Christopher Merrill, Hearth Mihaela Moscaliuc, The Ink of Cemeteries Debra Magpie Earling, The Great Big Rickety World My Father Saved Me From Geffrey Davis, Even in the Loneliness of the Canyon Angie Cruz, Dream Shelter William Kittredge, Refuge Mark Tredinnick, The Temple of the Word Mary Evelyn Tucker, From Home to Cosmos W. S. Merwin, The Other House
