DJ Lee's nonfiction essays and poetry have appeared in numerous literary and academic journals, including Narrative, About Place, and Terrain, and he has been a finalist in contests and have won a number of awards. He is the author/editor of eight books, including The Land Speaks (Oxford) and Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (Oregon State). DJ's hand papermaking has been shown at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Pullman, WA, and at Common Area Maintenance Gallery in Seattle. DJ Lee a Regents Professor of literature and creative writing at Washington State University.
Six times since 2014, I’ve walked the Ice Sheet. Together with Antarctica, 99% of the Earth’s freshwater ice is in Greenland. We know it’s melting. Oceans rising. Air warming. The planet’s balance is turning like a body in sleep. As the ice retreats, it reveals a landscape of debris at least 2.5 million years old. Rock and sand emerge like illegible… Read more →