J Drew Lanham is an endowed professor (Clemson University) and creative. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature (Milkweed Editions, 2016), Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts (Hub City, 2021) and Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves (Hub City, 2024). His abundant work on conserving wildness and illuminating social condition by personal identity can be found online. A 2022 MacArthur Fellowship is among his many awards. He lives on a farm in Seneca, South Carolina, where he cultivates words and nurtures wildness.
Contributions to Humans & Nature
- “Forest Thrush Song Primer in 3 Haiku,” a poem in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).Â
- “Isle of One,” a poem in Elementals: Water, Vol. 3 (Humans & Nature Press, 2024).
