Christine Woodside

Christine Woodside is a writer and this year brought to a close her twenty-year stint as editor-in-chief of Appalachia journal. As a writer, her focus is the many ways people face the environment. Her books include a wilderness memoir Going Over the Mountain (Appalachian Mountain Club Books) and Libertarians on the Prairie (Arcade), which explores a secret collaboration and the political underpinnings of the Little House books for children. She’s also written recently about poor farmers in New Jersey, bears in Connecticut, and the life of one old millpond dam in Chester, Connecticut, a few miles from her house. She has covered many thousands of miles in the mountains of the Northeast, including a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Chris has led writing workshops for the Appalachian Mountain Club and on her own since 2015, using outdoor exploration to create new work. More on her work at chriswoodside.com.