About Us
Kathleen Dean Moore
Kathleen Dean Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. Her current work is in the area of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, with a special emphasis on water. In The Pine Island Paradox (Milkweed, 2004), Moore sketches an environmental ethic of care, using the metaphor of islands to evoke the hidden kinship and interdependence of all life and the responsibilities that grow from that connection.
Moore is the author of two earlier books of essays that reflect on the cultural and spiritual value of the land: Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water (Lyons and Burford, 1996; Harcourt Brace, 1996), recipient of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World (The Lyons Press, 1999 and 2004), winner of the 2000 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. Deeply committed to philosophy that is accessible and useful, Moore publishes in magazines such as Orion, Audubon, Discover, Hope, ISLE, and The New York Times Magazine; and often speaks to environmental, natural resource, and scientific organizations.
Charles Goodrich
Charles Goodrich, Spring Creek Project Program Director, is the
author of a volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis
(Cloudbank Books, 2003), and a collection of essays about nature,
parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of
Home (Lyons Press, 2004). He has also edited two anthologies,
Let Us Drink to the River: Poems for the Willamette River,
and T'cha teemanwi: Poems for Marys Peak. His essays and
poetry have appeared in many magazines including Orion,
Open Spaces, Willow Springs, Zyzzyva, The
Sun, and Best Essays Northwest, and a number of his
poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on the National Public
Radio program, "The Writer's Almanac."
For twenty-five years Goodrich worked as a professional gardener, and in his writing and teaching he still looks to the garden as a model for interacting with nature. Goodrich has an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University. He lives with his family near the confluence of the Marys and Willamette Rivers in south Corvallis.