Topic: Women, Health, and the Environment

Thanks to Jennifer Lunden for this list: essays by women that blend issues of health and environment. Add your suggestions in the comments below–if the piece is online, we’d love a link to it.

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• Susanne Antonetta, Body Toxic
• Belle Boggs, “The Art of Waiting“
• Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Camille T. Dungy, “Tales from a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning,” from The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity and the Natural World, ed. Alison H. Deming and Lauret E. Savoy (Milkweed Editions, 2011), pp. 28-32.
• Gretel Ehrlrich, A Match to the Heart
• Gretel Ehrlrich, “The Solace of Open Spaces”
  • Ned Stuckey-French, “The Solace of Open Spaces” by Gretel Ehrlich (1981)“
• Kristen Iverson, Full Body Burden
• Mary Heather Noble, “Experimental Road,” Fourth Genre, Fall 2014.
• Joyce Carol Oates, “Against Nature”
• Eva Saulitis, “Wild Darkness“ 
• Sandra Steingraber, “The Sound of Migration”
• Sandra Steingraber, “Environmental Amnesia,” Orion
• Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Alice Walker, Am I Blue?
• Nicole Walker, “Move Out,” Newfound, Vol. 6, Winter.
• Terry Tempest Williams, “A Disturbance of Birds”
• Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge