Hearth: A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place

About

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 Redfords 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 OConnor of The Wide Open: Prose Poetry and Photographs of the Prairie. She lives in Bonner Montana. Susan OConnor 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.