ABOUT

Roxanne E. Bogart is a wildlife biologist, writer, and editor whose nature poems and essays have appeared in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Poetry Quarterly, The Burlington Poetry Journal, Silkworm, Bird Watcher’s Digest, and elsewhere.

She spends her personal time exploring the forests, fields, and waters of the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. It is here, and on travels farther afield, that she gathers inspiration for her writing, through close observation and careful collection of images, information, feelings, and insights.

She works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the national coordinator of an urban bird conservation program that creates opportunities for local communities to deepen their connection to nature through bird-related recreation, science, education, and conservation. For 12 years she was the editor of The All-Bird Bulletin, the newsletter of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative. She provides editorial services and has co-authored and edited several national and international bird conservation plans.

She earned an M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in Biology from Bryn Mawr College. She is a member of the International League of Conservation Writers, Straw Dog Writers' Guild, Florence Poets Society, and American Academy of Poets. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her family.