Welcome to the final installment of my interview with Paula Whyman, author of the new book, “Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop.” Paula's first book is “You May See a Stranger,” an award-winning, linked collection of short stories. Her work has been supported by fellowships from McDowell, Yaddo, and other residencies in Grants, and she was a Tennessee Williams scholar in fiction at the Sewanee Writers Conference.

Today we find out what's currently brewing for Paula and what she knows at this moment about where her personal through line is leading her next,

We covered:

- The upside of winter

- Why she’s looking for American kestrels (a small raptor) every morning

- A longing for sheep

- Getting less frustrated by setbacks

- The books she stays up late reading with a flashlight so as not to wake her husband

Connect with Paula at paulawhyman.com.

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