How to Pay Attention: On the Value of Stillness and Silence in All Seasons
Margaret Renkl Encourages Us to Explore the Wild, Wonderful World of Our Backyards
September 23, 2024
By Margaret Renkl
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Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.
Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi
“Always I find more answers in a forest than I find in my own hot attic of a mind.”
October 24, 2023
By Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere
"I pay attention to the natural world."
September 17, 2021
By Margaret Renkl
Writing Through Extreme Grief Helped Me Become Myself Again
Margaret Renkl on the Unexpected Catalyst for Writing Her First Book
July 19, 2019
By Margaret Renkl
How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee
On the Vital Importance of the NEH and the NEA
May 4, 2017
By Margaret Renkl
John Lewis: ‘Read Everything. Be Kind. Be Bold.’
In Conversation with an American Hero
November 28, 2016
By Margaret Renkl
