Paul Lindholdt

Lindholdt began his career as a lecturer at Idaho State University from 1984–87 and then continued as a lecturer at Western Washington University from 1987–90. In 1990 he took a position at the University of Idaho as a visiting assistant professor until migrating back to his home state of Washington as a lecturer at Eastern Washington University in 1994. He was promoted to Assistant Professor (1997–2003), Associate Professor (2003–07), and Professor of English from 2007–present.[1] Students rank him among the ten most popular teachers at his university.[2]

• Washington State Book Award for Biography / Memoir, 2012, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press, 2011).[3]
• First Place and Second Place, Society of Professional Journalists, Region 10, Energy and Environmental Reporting, 2000.
• Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize, Academy of American Poets, Pennsylvania State University, 1984.

• Making Landfall: Poems, Farmington, Maine: Encircle Publications, 2018.
• The Spokane River, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
• Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
• In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
• The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. [1862.] Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
• Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West. Introduction and edited with Derrick Knowles. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.
• History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians. [1901.] Phoenix: Marquette Books, 2004. Edited and introduction.
• Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem. Edited with Mitch Friedman. Bellingham, Washington: Greater Ecosystem Alliance, 1993.
• John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of 'Two Voyages to New-England'." Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988.

• "A Warrior's Portrait." Spokesman-Review Dec. 1, 2013.
• "Lokout (1834-1913)." HistoryLink Oct. 13, 2013
• "Antidotes to Humanism." The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 28.1 (2012).
• "From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection." Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (January 2009): 1-25.
• "The Fine Art of Bureaucracy." High Country News Jan. 19, 2009.
• "Theodore Winthrop in the Washington Territory." Columbia Spring 2007.
• "An Iconography of American Sabotage." Nature et Progrès: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations. Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Presses de l'université, Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 151-68.

• "Making Landfall." Terrain.org Aug. 5, 2019.
• "The Security of Dirt." The Smart Set Feb. 19, 2018.
• "Shrub-Steppe, Pothole, Ponderosa Pine." Numéro Cinq Aug. 2017.
• "The Trumpets of Solitude." Terrain.org June 2015.
• "Living the Land." Weber Studies 19.3 (Spring-Summer 2002): 88-94.

Lindholdt married Karen Palrang at High Rock Lookout on Mt. Rainier in August 1994. They met when Karen, a law student at the University of Idaho, joined an environmental campaign Lindholdt was organizing. They have two grown sons together and homes in Spokane, Washington, and Sandpoint, Idaho.[4]

Educated at Penn State (PhD 1985) and Western Washington University (MA 1980, BA 1978), Lindholdt studied creative writing under poet John Balaban [5] and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard[6].

• Carolyn Lamberson (September 9, 2012). "Book Notes: Lindholdt earns rare book award". The Spokesman-Review.
• Paul Lindholdt - Eastern Washington University website
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