What is Peregrinations?
Peregrinations is place for those who love the natural world. Whose hearts crack a little at its beauty and wonders, and also at its destruction. I’ve been exploring how humans might live sustainably on the planet, while making abundant room for the wild, for all my adult life, and writing about what I find for the past twenty years. (Longer if you count the zine years.) Here, I’ll share my latest pieces and unpublished oldies, advance notice of classes and events, recommended readings, and craft tips on creative nonfiction and publishing. You’ll get sneak peaks of things to come. Also, outtakes from the reporting trips that don’t quite fit the final piece, but carry a story of their own. And birds, likely raptors, cutting through the sky, leaving a slipstream all their own.
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I used to amass stacks of letters, pen on paper. Then there was a zine (rrrrl girlz!). Then a blog. Now, we come together here, on Substack. The world gets bigger, and smaller, all at the same time. But our hunger for connection continues unabated. This is my itty bitty way to stay connected to you. For now, it’ll be occasional and free.
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Who is Meera?
I’m a freelance journalist who has been on the environment beat since 2005. I bring together science and true stories, squaring what academics, scientists and policymakers say with what people are experiencing on their own homegrounds. I’ve written about the near extinction of vultures in Nepal and large-scale solar farms in India for The New Yorker, conservative American perceptions of climate change for Inside Climate News, and the global problem of plastic for Nature and Orion, where I’m a contributing editor. Sometimes I get personal, like the essays in VQR (forthcoming) and the Best Women’s Travel Writing series. I wrote a book: A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, which Kirkus Reviews called “right thinking and accusatory in all the right places.” And I’m currently collaborating with the talented artist Danica Novgorodoff on a YA nonfiction graphic novel about youth climate activists. You can find more about me and my work at www.meerasub.org.
It takes all of us.
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