Defining the Landscape:
How Writers Change Where We Live
Sometimes I feel like a chameleon. I grew up on a farm in Iowa (first 18 years, plus four years of graduate school), lived in Michigan (six years), South Dakota (three months), Oregon (three years), Alaska (half a year), Idaho (one-and-a-half years), Washington (16 years), Norwich, England (one year) and Minnesota (twenty years). As a …