"The Top 10 Books about Trees that I Read in 2010" by Yelizaveta P. Renfro
Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:01PM During the first month of 2011, Dzanc Books will be sharing a number of "Best of 2010" lists written by our authors, our editors, and other affiliated folks. Today's list comes from Yelizaveta P. Renfro, whose A Catalogue of Everything in the World was published in 2010 by Black Lawrence Press.
The Top 10 Books about Trees that I Read in 2010
Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini Nadkarni
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
Oak: The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
The Life of an Oak: An Intimate Portrait by Glenn Keator
Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads by Frank J. Daniels, Brooks B. Britt, and Richard D. Dayvault
The Life & Love of Trees by Lewis Blackwell
Yelizaveta P. Renfro
Yelizaveta P. Renfro's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, Blue Mesa Review, Fourth River, So to Speak, Literary Mama, and the anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection (OV Books/University of Illinois Press, 2008). Her short story collection, A Catalogue of Everything in the World, is the 2008 winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. She has an MFA from George Mason University and is completing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
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