About
Gail Folkins often writes about her deep roots in the American West. She is the author of the memoir Light in the Trees, named a 2016 Foreword INDIES nature finalist, and Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit, a 2007 INDIES popular culture finalist. She teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and is an editor at Wandering Aengus Press.
Featured Work
Light in the Trees
A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator’s travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Sasquatch myths and serial killer realities, a runaway Appaloosa, and turbulent volcanoes beneath serene mountaintops help chronicle a coming of age for both a narrator and a place.
