Ian Ramsey

Ian Ramsey is the author of the poetry collection Hackable Animal (finalist for the Prism Climate Prize from Homebound Publications), the forthcoming This Craggy Heart: Mountain Poems (Green Writers Press) and co-creator (along with Elizabeth Bradfield and Samaa Abdurraqib) of the forthcoming Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: A Literary Field Guide to a Changing Ecoregion (Storey). His writing has appeared in journals like Orion and Appalachia, and in anthologies like A Gift of Animals and Environmental and Nature Writing. Ramsey is Co-Editor-in-Chief at Wild Dog Press and has been an educator for 28 years, serving as the founding director of the Kauffmann Program for Environmental Writing and Wilderness Exploration. He frequently collaborates with climate scientists and is a wilderness athlete, kayak coach, and Maine Guide. He lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his partner, ecologist Heidi Asbjornsen, along a tidal inlet of the New Meadows River.