Milkweed Press has made a commitment to environmental literature and nature writing. In support of that commitment, RSISS wants to make our readers aware of the press's Credo, Literature for a Land Ethic, and World as Home titles. Some of these titles also appear under our list of Nature Writers

Credo Series

“The Credo Series offers contemporary American nature writers the opportunity to discuss their essential goals, concerns, and practices. Each volume presents an individual writer's credo essay, as well as biographical portrait and complete bibliographical portrait and complete bibliography of the author's work.”

An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist
John Nichols

Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays on Art and Activism
Rick Bass

Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry
Gary Paul Nabhan

The Country of Languages
Scott Russell Sanders

The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing as Reciprocal Creation
Pattiann Rogers

The Frog Run: Words and Wilderness in the Vermont Woods
John Elder

Shaped by Wind and Water: Reflections of a Naturalist
Ann Haymond Zwinger

Taking Care: Thoughts on Storytelling and Belief
William Kittredge

Walking the High Ridge: Life as Field Trip
Robert Michael Pyle

Winter Creek: One Writer's Natural History
John Daniel

Writing the Sacred into the Real
Alison Hawthorne Deming

Literature for a Land Ethic
Literature for a Land Ethic is an anthology series that addresses the need to preserve our last wild places. These books offer prismatic portraits of endangered landscapes across our continent through the various perspectives of some of the best of each region's writers.

Artic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony
Edited by Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid

The Book of the Everglades
Edited by Susan Cerulean

The Book of the Tongass
Edited by Carolyn Servid and Donald Snow

Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of the Utah Wilderness
Edited by Stephen Trimble and Terry Tempest Williams


World as Home Titles

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepard
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild
Paul Gruchow

Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
edited by Alison H. Deming and Laurent E. Savoy

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Janisse Ray

Grass Roots: The Universe of Home
Paul Gruchow

Homestead
Annick Smith

The Necessity of Empty Places
Paul Gruchow

Of Landscape and Longing: Finding a Home at the Water's Edge
Carolyn Servid


Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood
William Morrish and Catherine Brown


The Prairie in Her Eyes
Ann Daum

A Sense of the Morning: Field Notes of a Born Observer
David Brendan Hopes

Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins, and Seals
Anne Collet

This Incomparable Land: A Guide to American Nature writing
Thomas J. Lyon

Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City
Edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
Janisse Ray

Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance
edited by Tom Butler

A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk
Peri Phillips McQuay