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. Her middle grade novel Summer Farm is forthcoming from Trafalgar Square 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.
