Hannah Fries is the author of A Forest Language (essays), Little Terrarium (poems), and Being with Trees (inspirational). She is also an executive editor at Storey Publishing, where she has worked since 2014. Prior to her tenure at Storey, Hannah was on the editorial staff of Orion magazine. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such places as Terrain.org, The Marginalian,  EcoTheo Review, American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was awarded a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in western Massachusetts.

On A Forest Language:

"A Forest Language is an exquisite cabinet of arboreal wonders, where each term becomes a story and each story a portal into the secret lives of trees, written with the precision of a naturalist and the tenderness of a poet.”

—Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses

"A Forest Language reads like a quiet, necessary conversation with the living world, where every generous word--mycorrhiza, sap, lenticil--glows with the tenderness of a living thing. Hannah Fries brilliantly teaches us how to love trees not just as scenery, but as neighbors, mentors, and astonishing collaborators."
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders

“A welcome, nourishing encounter at the crossroads of science and poetry, of fact and meaning, of understanding and intoxicating awe.”

—Jarod K. Anderson, author of Strange Animals and Something in the Woods Loves You

On Little Terrarium:

“The love on these pages is human and searching—such is the love we need for art and the love we seek for wisdom.”

—Maurice Manning, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry