Diana Beresford-Kroeger
DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER is a botanist and medical biochemist who is an expert on the medicinal, environmental, and nutritional properties of trees. She is also a precise and poetic writer, steeped in Gaelic storytelling traditions, gathered from her childhood in Ireland. Her indisputable passion for her subject matter will inspire readers to look at trees, and at their own connection to the natural world, with newfound awe. In 2010, Diana was inducted as a Wings Worldquest Fellow.
Recent and upcoming appearances:
5/16/2010: Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch, Toronto
5/17/2010: The Toronto Botanical Gardens
5/20/2010: The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University
5/23/2010: Brockville Climate Action Group, Brockville, Ontario
6/3/2010: Ottawa Writers Festival Talk at Nicholas Hoare, Ottawa
Watch for Diana on the CBC's The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
To arrange a lecture or reading, please contact: STUART BERNSTEIN.
Also by Diana Beresford-Kroeger from University of Michigan Press:
page © 2010 Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists
"On occasion, someone understands a subject so deeply that information is transmuted into wisdom. This book marks one of those occasions—it is rich and hopeful and compelling in a quiet, insistent way."
-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
"The essays of The Global Forest are a beautiful and poetic tribute to their subject, based on wide-ranging scientific knowledge."
-E. O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
"I have never read anything quite like The Global Forest. It reads like a spinning continuum of a mind-altering walk through the most magnificent forests in the world, looking back into the deepest possible crannies of not-so-distant human history and consciousness while also seeing ahead into the near future of science and consequence, with the hair on the back of one's neck rising, yet looking forward also with candle glimmers of hope and yearning that cannot be vanquished."
-Rick Bass, author of Winter: Notes from Montana
Viking, May 2010
CBC Radio 1 INTERVIEW
New York Times PROFILE
Living on Earth PODCAST
From Recreating Eden, "The Renegade Scientist" courtesy of Merit Motion Pictures
Toronto Star INTERVIEW
Weekly Dig REVIEW
Arboretum Borealis will be published in October 2010
