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Katie Myers is a writer in the mountain South. Previously, she worked as a climate solutions fellow at Grist, and a reporter at WMMT 88.7 FM, an eastern Kentucky community radio station. Her work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and Scalawag Magazine, among others, as well as onstage in Nashville, New York, and Knoxville. She writes about climate, labor, wilderness, and small-town politics, among other things.
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
It’s all around.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
Growth as a community, not an individual; deep and reciprocal relationships with one another. Recovering that for ourselves is like a yard that’s been allowed to grow over – wildflowers, insects, tall grasses, new saplings, creatures beginning to find food there again, fallen leaves sinking into the ground and feeding everything else.
