Kimberley F Todd

Contact Me

kftodd@umn.edu
612-625-6095

English Department
20 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE

Affiliations

• English
• Creative Writing Program
• Institute on the Environment

Links

• Curriculum Vitae
• Kim Todd website

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• M.S.: Environmental Studies, University of Montana, 1999.
• M.F.A.: Creative writing (nonfiction), University of Montana, 1998.
• B.A.: English, Yale University, 1992.

Specialties

• Creative writing (nonfiction)
• Science writing
• Environmental literature

Courses Taught

• The Essay
• Senior Seminar, Fiction and Nonfiction
• Contemporary Nonfiction Writing
• Nonfiction Workshop
• Research Methods for Literary Nonfiction
• Nonfiction as Witness

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Environmental Leadership Program: Senior Fellow

Publications

• The Island Wolves: Todd, Kimberley, Eds. Sam Kean and Tim Folger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018, 84-96, 2018.
• In Turn Each Woman Thrust Her Head: Todd, Kimberley, Paris Review Daily, 2018. Link
• Coyote Tracker: Todd, Kimberley, Bay Nature, 18.1 28-32, 42-44, 2018.
• Those Magnificent Women and Their Typing Machines: Todd, Kimberley, Smithsonian, 47.7 60-67, 2017. Link
• Waste Land: Todd, Kimberley, Smithsonian, 46.9 60-79, 2016. Link
• Horsetails: Todd, Kimberley, Missoula: Montana Natural History Center, Field Notes, 47-48, 2016.
• Yellow-Headed Blackbirds: Todd, Kimberley, Missoula: Montana Natural History Center, Field Notes, 32-33, 2016.
• Curious: Todd, Kimberley, Eds. Rebecca Skloot and Tim Folger, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, 273-281, 2015.
• Reintroductions and Other Translocations: Todd, Kimberley, Guernica, 2015. Link
• Sparrow, Reaktion Books, 2012.
• Bear Bagging: Todd, Kimberley, Eds. Rees Hughes and Corey Lewis, Seattle: Mountaineers Press, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Oregon/Washington, 138–141, 2011.
• Metamorphosis and Motherhood: Todd, Kimberley, Ed. Samantha Parent Walravens, Seattle: Coffeetown Press, Torn, True Stories of Kids, Career, and Modern Motherhood, 143–148, 2011.
• Chrysalis, Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Harcourt, 2007.
• Starling: Todd, Kimberley, Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, City Birding, True Tales of Birds and Birdwatching in Unexpected Places, 154–164, 2003.
• Tinkering with Eden, A Natural History of Exotic Species in America, W.W. Norton, 2001.
• Disorienting: Todd, Kimberley, Ed. Susan Fox Rogers, New York: Vintage, Two in the Wild, 1999.

Awards

• New York Public Library “Books to Remember” Selection, 2007
• Montana Book Award Honor Book, 2007
• MacDowell Colony Residency, 2003
• Hedgebrook Residency, 2003
• Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award, 2002
• PEN/Jerard Fund Award, 2001