Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change - Alexis Lathem

\nALEXIS LATHEM is an essayist, poet, journalist, teacher, activist, gardener, and craftsperson. She is the author of the poetry collection Alphabet of Bones and two chapbooks, and holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council, the Black Earth Institute, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Marble House Project, and the Chelsea Award for Poetry. She has worked in food and environmental justice organizations for many years and reported widely on farm policy and environmental conflicts in Indigenous communities. Her essays and poems have appeared in About Place, AWP Chronicle, The Hopper, Hunger Mountain, Gettysburg Review, Solstice, West Branch, and elsewhere. She lives with her musician husband on a small farm in the Winooski River Valley, ancestral land of the Abenaki. \n