A Year of Real and Literary Birds

Laura Godfrey is an Associate Professor of English at North Idaho College. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Washington State University and has published multiple academic and personal essays in journals such as Western American Literature, The Hemingway Review, and Arizona Quarterly and in edited collections including Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Her first book, Hemingway's Geographies (Palgrave), appeared in 2016, and her second edited collection, Hemingway in the Digital Age (Kent State UP), was published in 2019.

Introduction: “Of Mere Being”

Winter

Chapter 1: Regarding Birds

Chapter 2: From a Snowshoer’s Notebook

Spring

Chapter 3: Song Sparrow in a Pandemic

Chapter 4: In All the Garden Round

Chapter 5: Swainson’s Thrush

Summer

Chapter 6: Habitat Edges

Chapter 7: Dawn Chorus

Chapter 8: House Wren

Chapter 9: Clark’s Nutcracker and the Whitebark Pine

Chapter 10: Already, Before Long

Fall

Chapter 11: Home for a Grouse

Chapter 12: Sky Atlas