About

Kristine’s passion for the Earth began on the ancestral lands of the Northern Paiute and Eastern Mono/Monache peoples in the region now known as the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Eastern California. Her connection to all living beings began by playing in the mountains with her sister Carol and their dogs—first a Saint Bernard named Kimba, and later a black Labrador retriever named Blossom. Kristine has worked on behalf of environmental and animal welfare organizations for nearly 30 years, including the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the San Francisco Zoological Society. She is Co-founder of Planet Women, which partners with women to create a healthy planet for all life and Superbloom, a philanthropic fund dedicated to women climate and biodiversity leaders. Kristine serves as a member of the board of directors of the Mono Lake Committee and the Sonoran Institute. She is an advisor to Daughters for Earth and the Institute for Integrative Conservation at the College of William & Mary. Kristine’s previous books include Connor and the Love Left Behind: The Leaning Dog Who Changed Our Life and Cover This Country Like Snow and Other Stories. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Indiana State University’s The Plane Tree journal, Forge Journal, The Bark, The Peregrine, Charles River Review, Menda City Review, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Barely South Review, and The Saint Ann’s Review. Kristine was awarded writer residencies at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains and the Vermont Studio Center in the Green Mountains. Kristine also supports and mentors nature writers as co-founder of New Nature Writers. A graduate of Lafayette College, she lives with her husband Joe and works as a guest on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Salinan and nearby, the Northern Chumash on California’s Central Coast. A private pilot, Kristine is passionate about combining creative, technical, and mathematical skills as she and her family and friends soar over lands and waters from a single-engine aircraft.