21 Black Authors Who Share How They See the Nature World Through Their Writing

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Looking for some new authors to add to your collection of inspirational nature writings?

Search no more; we’ve started a list of authors you can read and contribute to, adding some important new perspectives about how Black authors see the natural world.

  • Camille T. Dungy: Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry
  • Carolyn Finley: Black Faces, White Spaces: African Americans and the Great Outdoors
  • Cecil Griscombe: Prairie Style
  • Al Young: Something About the Blues
  • Harryette Mullen: Urban Tumbleweed
  • John C. Robinson: Birding for Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers
  • Dianne D. Glave: To Love the Wind and the Rain: African-Americans and Environmental History
  • Norris McDonald: Diary of an Environmentalist
  • Mary Williams: The Lost Daughter, A Memoir
  • Eddy L. Harris: Mississippi Solo, A River Quest
  • Lauret Savoy: Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
  • John Francis: Planet Walker
  • J. Drew Latham: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
  • Dorceta Taylor: The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
  • James Edwards Mills: The Adventure Gap: Changing the Force of the Outdoors
  • Dianne D. Glave: Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
  • Dorceta Taylor: Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
  • Octavia Butler: The Parable series
  • N. K. Jemison: the Broken Earth trilogy

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