Diane Wilson
Not sure if kombucha, bogs, and history can be exciting? Wait till you hear from writer Diane Wilson.
Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer, educator, and bog steward, who has published five award-winning books as well as numerous essays. Her novel, The Seed Keeper, received the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, and her memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award and was selected for the 2012 One Minneapolis One Read program. She has also published a nonfiction book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life; a middle-grade biography, Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector; and co-authored a picture book—Where We Come From. Wilson is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. She is the former Executive Director for Dream of Wild Health, an Indigenous non-profit farm, and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people.
“When we come together as a community we can bring together our problem solving skills and find ways to turn what have been challenges into places of renewal.”
Mentioned in this episode:
Author and teacher Cheri Register
Bogs (Read Diane’s piece in Orion magazine about ecosystem restoration)
“Stories are a roadmap for life.”