ABOUT

Professional Conservation Experience
Roxanne E. Bogart is a wildlife biologist, writer, editor, and poet. She retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2025, where she served for ten years as the national coordinator of a program that supports organizations working to engage local communities in bird conservation, recreation, science, and education in cities across the country.

For 12 years, she was the managing editor of The All-Bird Bulletin, the newsletter of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative. She provides professional conservation writing, editing, and strategic planning services and has co-authored and edited numerous national and international bird conservation plans and reports. 

Nature Writing Experience
As a creative writer, her nature poems and essays have appeared in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, WriteAngles Journal, Poetry Quarterly, The Burlington Poetry Journal, Silkworm, Bird Watcher’s Digest, and various anthologies. Her full-length, illustrated book of poetry, All That Sustains, was published in 2022 by Off the Common Books. 

She spends her personal time exploring the wild nature of 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.

Education, Memberships, Personal Life
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, the Straw Dog Writers' Guild, and the American Academy of Poets.

She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her family and enjoys hiking, running, biking, kayaking, birdwatching, nature study, meditation, and qigong.