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Essay: A Map of the Heart

October 1, 2014 by Paula Panich

A bitter wind had blown somewhere else that morning, and sun bounced off remnant glaciers hanging in the valleys across Kachemak Bay.

Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: Alaska, Homer Alaska, Ilana Panich-Linsman, Kachemak Bay, literary essays, natural world, nature, Pacific Horticulture, Pacific Horticulture Magazine, the Literary Gardener

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays. Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

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Cultivating Words

The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love

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