| Terril L. Shorb is a life-long westerner who
grew up on ranches, subsistence farms, and in small rural towns
in the northern Rockies. His formal education includes his currently
working on a doctoral degree in Sustainability Education. He
holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, a B.A. in Communication
Studies, and a Certificate in Journalism, all from Sonoma State
(California State) University. He has worked as an agricultural journalist, radio advertising
copywriter, public affairs director for Goodwill Industries,
and media director for a Sonoma County tourism bureau. He founded the nation's first undergraduate degree emphasis
in Sustainable Community Development at an accredited college, Prescott College, where he is faculty. His writings and photography
have appeared in newspapers and magazines including High
Country News, America West Airlines Magazine, Country Woman
Magazine, the Albion Monitor, The Denver Post, Christian
Living in the Mature Years, Persimmon Hill, Succeed: The Magazine
for Continuing Education, and Birds and Blooms.
Through Native West Press and his role as a nature and sustainability
educator, he invites others to better understand and appreciate
the natural world. Terril's interactive, community-based
presentations include Central Arizona Land Trust and Open Space
Alliance, Prescott Audubon Society, Tri-City Leadership Council,
Chino Valley Historical Society, Professional Writers of Prescott, Gentle Strength University, Prescott Creeks Preservation Association, and
more recently at the Sustainability and Environmental Education:
Focus on the Future Conference (2005), sponsored by the North American
Association for Environmental Education, the Regional Urban
Wildlife Symposium & Expo (2005), the Green to Gold: Sustainable
Cities, Healthy Local Economies Conference (2006), and The Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable World (2006), sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. "My life is
written in bears and ravens, horned lizards and desert tortoises.
Seems only right I share some of those beloved two, four, six,
eight, or no-legged stories with my human brethren." |
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Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb holds an interdisciplinary
M.A. (Ecosemantics with an emphasis on Speciesism) from Prescott
College. Ecosemantics, in a scholarly context and as
stated in her copyrighted master's thesis (2002), may be defined
as an interdisciplinary perspective of study that focuses
on the interactions among human cognition, perception, linguistic
expression, and sociocultural conditioning in an effort to understand
how we derive, categorize, develop, and determine meaning from
and about nature. She also holds two B.A. degrees, one
(English with an emphasis on Poetry and a minor in Linguistics)
from Sonoma State University and a second (Wildlife Studies)
from Prescott College. She considers herself to be a structuralist
(emphasis on omission of post) who believes that the
way we function in the world is dependent on our form, and that
our form is defined by and dependent upon our cells continuing
to be interwoven into the living memory of the Earth. She has
a special interest in the sociobiological aspects and associated
values typology of the Wilson/Kellert Biophilia Hypothesis.
Her poetry has appeared over the years in such journals as
Weber Studies, Wild Earth, The Midwest Quarterly, Karamu, Poem,
So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, Out of
Line, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Eureka Literary Magazine,
The Chaffin Journal, New Thought Journal, Puerto del Sol, The
Comstock Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Blueline Anthology
(Syracuse University Press), and many other publications, as
well as in online journals, including Terrain.org: A Journal
of the Built and Natural Environments, The Pedestal
Magazine, Entelechy: Mind & Culture, LanguageandCulture.net, Antithesis Common, and Wild Violet, among
others. Within her poetry she attempts to emphasize that the
hardest part of being human is our immense self-consciousness
because with it comes enormous responsibility to the "others"
who extend biologically beyond the reach of our anthropocentrism. |
