Voices from the Land: Gardens and the Making of Americans

Patricia Klindienst is the author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, winner of the 2006 American Book Award. She has also published essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, and ethnic cleansing. Klindienst has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," originally published in the Stanford Literature Review, and "Philomela's Loom," the epilogue to Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.