Kathleen Dean Moore

There, she served as department chair, Master Teacher, and Distinguished Professor, developing field courses such as the Philosophy of Nature, which she taught in the lake country of the Pacific Cascades.

[1] During that time, Moore co-founded, with poet and philanthropist Franz Dolp, the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, which she directed for 10 years.

[4] But her growing concern for the perils of global warming led her to leave the university in 2013 to devote all her time to writing and speaking about the moral urgency of climate action.

[7] This was the first of many of Moore's articles, blogs, op-eds, and public talks in which she speaks out against those who would "wreck the world" through fossil fuel extraction and other acts that lead to global extinction.

To writers, she describes this metaphorically as the "art of the osprey," a fish-hawk that repeatedly dives from the world of sunshine and color into the murkier shadows below the surface of experience.

Moore lives in Corvallis, Oregon and, in the summers, writes from "a small cabin where two creeks and a bear trail meet a tidal cove" in the southeast Alaska islands.