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Erika Howsare

Journalist, poet, author of "The Age of Deer"

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On my mind

I'm always thinking about humans and the earth--how we fit in here, what choices we're making, how our ideas shape the reality of the planet. There's the daily life part of it (driving, eating, traveling, gardening, foraging, buying stuff, not buying stuff, being outside, noticing the seasons, noticing birds, naming plants, parenting) and there's the big-picture part (climate change, science, history, evolution, art, spirituality). These issues are capacious and complex and personal, and as time passes, I find myself interested in what they mean not only for the mind but for the heart. I grew up on the edge of Appalachia, in Rust Belt Pennsylvania, and fell in love with the American continent, Turtle Island, via reading history and road-tripping and working on farms. I studied and published poetry, and worked in local journalism for years, before I turned toward nonfiction projects and discovered that deer were a great portal into my most urgent questions--my book The Age of Deer (2024) asks about everything from hunting to culling to Bambi to the long traditions of tanning deer hides that were nurtured in Indigenous America before becoming part of the colonialist economy. In 2023 I also made a podcast, If You See a Deer, a companion to my book and my first dive into writing for audio. My writing moves among journalism, poetry, creative nonfiction, and criticism, and I love talking and thinking about how these modes overlap and intersect. I'm not big on genre boundaries. My interests as a reader are promiscuous. I love talking process and projects with other writers--whether you're experienced or not.

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Why I'm excited to talk with readers

I'm happy to chat about deer or other specific human-earth connections, and all the history and science that goes along with them--and I'm just as excited to talk about the writing process itself. If you have a project on your mind or questions about writing, I would love to share what I've learned in 25+ years of filling notebooks and chasing publication.

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The Age of Deer

Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

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Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They’re one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence. In the 21st century, our relationship is full of contradictions: We hunt and protect them; we cull them from suburbs while making them an icon of wilderness; we see them both as victims and as pests. But there is no doubt that we have a connection to deer: in mythology and story, in ecosystems biological and digital, in cities and in forests.

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Delving into the historical roots of these tangled attitudes and how they play out in the present, Erika Howsare observes scientists capture and collar fawns; hunters show off their trophies; a museum interpreter teaching American history while tanning a deer hide; an animal-control officer collecting the carcasses of deer killed by sharpshooters; and a woman bottle-raising orphaned fawns in her backyard. As she reports these stories, Howsare’s eye is always on the bigger picture: Why do we look at deer in the ways we do, and what do these animals reveal about human involvement in the natural world?

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"A masterpiece . . . Howsare's hands-on approach keeps her storytelling vivid and personal."

—Michael Sims, The Washington Post

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