Megan Kaminski is Poet and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas, where her teaching and research live at the intersection of poetic practice, environmental advocacy, and community care. She is interested in the ways that place calls us into relationships of care for land, water, and the various human and nonhuman communities that reside there, and in the ways that call reaches across political and cultural differences. Her work illuminates and engages with that call into reciprocity—and invites others into these relationships in their own daily lives.

Megan is the author of three books of poetry, Gentlewomen (Noemi Press, 2020), Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015) and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012). She is currently completing a three-book cycle about the tallgrass prairie, including Blazing Star, a collection of poems, and Prairie Oracle, essays and an oracle deck grounded in ecological science and lived relationship with the Kansas landscapes, both under contract and forthcoming, as well as Prairie Alchemy, a lyric memoir (in progress) braiding personal narrative, natural history, and contemplative practice.

Her place-based sound, poetry, and art installations have appeared at museums, public gardens, and libraries across the country, and her poetry and essays regularly appear in literary magazines and journals. Her social practice includes three edited volumes of nature poetry and art, as well as hundreds of community workshops, place-based poetry walks, and community readings, talks, and performances, all centered on co-creating with and within our ecosystems towards community connection, healing, and liberatory futures.