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Robert Root

Robert Root is the author the forthcoming Walking Home Ground: Time, Terrain, Transition and other books. His essays have been listed in the Best American Essays series and given the Council of Wisconsin Writers Award for Short Nonfiction. He teaches in the Ashland University MFA Program and at the Loft and lives in Waukesha. His website is www.rootwriting.com.

Latest Contributed Stories

June 13, 2018

Cave crawling: A journey under Chilton’s Ledge View Nature Center

For some, the thought of descending into the depths of a dark, tight cave is the stuff of nightmares. For Robert Root, the challenge of facing that fear was a ...

May 17, 2017

The Welcome Oak

Many of us have an affinity for certain trees. For Robert Root, it’s an oak that welcomed him to a section of the Ice Age Trail near his home. Only ...

April 22, 2016

Synchronicity In Nature And Life

The Niagara Escarpment stretches from New York to Wisconsin and shapes the geological, environmental, and human history of all that it touches. Like the escarpment, writer Robert Root’s life stretches ...

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