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Helena Feder <\/strong>has published essays, interviews, and poems in venues including North American Review, The Georgia Review, Radical Philosophy, Orion, ISLE, ASAP\/Journal, The Writer’s Chronicle, Another Chicago Magazine, After the Art, Guernica, Green Letters, Western American Literature, Tikkun, The Branches, Critical Read,<\/em> and Terrain.org<\/em>. Helena is Professor of Environmental Humanities at ECU and Editor of the national journal Tar River Poetry<\/em> (www.tarriverpoetry.com). She’s the author of Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture<\/em> (Routledge) and editor of Close Reading the Anthropocene <\/em>(Routledge) and You Are the River<\/em> (seventy-five literary responses to work in the North Carolina Museum of Art, published by the NCMA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her first creative book, Cat Woman in Dog Country<\/em>, is forthcoming with University of Alabama Press in March 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor. Close Reading the Anthropocene. <\/em>Routledge, <\/em>2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor. You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art.<\/em> NCMA, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman<\/em>. Routledge, 2014 (paperback 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected prose <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFig Greed.\u201d Terrain.org<\/em>. [forthcoming, 2027]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Pink<\/a>.\u201d Defenestration.<\/em> March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>Fast Extinction, Slow Art: on work by Henry Ossawa Tanner and Neil Welliver<\/a>.\u201d ASAP\/Journal,<\/em> December 15, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSchizophrenic Sedona.<\/a>\u201d North American Review<\/em>. June 16, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrench Food for the \u2018New Woman<\/a>.\u2019\u201d North American Review<\/em>. October 24, 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStealing Hunters in the Snow.\u201d Critical Read<\/em>. July 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWild Culture: A Conversation with Hal Whitehead<\/a>.\u201d Terrain.<\/em>org, April 11, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAllegories for the Future: A Conversation with Lydia Millet.\u201d The Writer\u2019s Chronicle. <\/em>February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mystical Character of Mechanical Determinism: A Conversation with Robert Sapolsky.\u201d Tikkun.<\/em> November 29, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore Fully, More Delicately Alive with Jane Hirshfield.\u201d The Writer\u2019s Chronicle.<\/em> September 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Art of Living: A Conversation with Chimamanda Adichie.\u201d The Writer\u2019s Chronicle. <\/em>April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCathleen Schine and the Comic Tradition.\u201d The Writer\u2019s Chronicle.<\/em> September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeautiful Impermanence: an Interview with Sculptor Patrick Dougherty<\/a>.\u201d Orion<\/em>. June 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDorianne Laux, Elegiac Witness.\u201d The Writer\u2019s Chronicle<\/em>. 54.2 (November 2021). 16-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLove is the Great Subject with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.\u201d ASAP\/Journal<\/em> 6.1 (January 2021). 29-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConcrete Breathes: A Conversation with Ledelle Moe.\u201d Another Chicago Magazine<\/em>. October 15, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cContradiction Is Not Disappointing: an Interview with Michael Hardt.\u201d Capitalism Nature Socialism<\/em>. 31:3 (August 2020). 42-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDreaming the Real with Marianne Boruch.\u201d The Writer\u2019s Chronicle<\/em>. 52.3 (February 2020). 18-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScience and Social Change: A Conversation with Robert Sapolsky.<\/a>\u201d ISLE. <\/em>26.3 (Summer 2019). 793-808.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Never Waste a Good Crisis;\u2019 an Interview with Mary Mellor.\u201d Capitalism Nature Socialism<\/em>. 30.4 (December 2019). 44-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHints of Insurrection: A Conversation with Stephen Dunn.\u201d The Georgia Review<\/em>. (Summer 2018). 72.2. 414-428.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The Realism of Our Time\u2019: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.<\/a>\u201d Radical Philosophy.<\/em> 2.1. 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018What We Talk About When We Talk About Culture:\u2019 Frans de Waal on Science, Morality, and the Human Animal.\u201d Green Letters. <\/em>21.2 (2017). 199-212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Universe Is Imaginative: the Art of David Robertson.\u201d Western American Literature.<\/em> 52.3 (Fall 2017). 243-266.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Still<\/em> Present Moment: An Interview with Gary Snyder.\u201d North American Review<\/em>. 301.4 (Fall 2016). 41-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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