Kristin Kaye is an award-winning author and teacher whose work sits at the intersection of nature, narrative and spirituality. Her eco-literary, coming of age novel Tree Dreams was the 2018 WINNER, International Books Awards: YA Fiction and 2019 FINALIST NextGen Indie Book Awards: Regional Fiction. Author Michael Meade wrote, “Kristin Kaye’s coming of age novel artfully places her young heroine in the midst of the burning questions facing the entire world, such as climate change and culture wars.”
Research for Kristin’s environmental writing has taken her across the US including deep into the woods on expeditions to help measure the biggest tree of each species for the US National Big Tree Registry; to interview foresters, loggers and state and federal employees and to a treesit in California, sleeping on a platform 100-feet high, with radical environmentalists where they were living dangerously in order to protect the redwoods.
Tree Dreams has given rise to a global tree tagging campaign that celebrates the myriad ways we are connected to the natural world, to each other and to our future. Teachers have adapted Tree Dreams for the classroom and standards-aligned lesson plans are available at treedreams.net. Kristin has taught writing and eco-storytelling workshops across the U.S. including at the American Library Association, National Science Teachers Association, the California Academy of Sciences, the California Association of Environmental and Outdoor Educators and at the Young Artists Institute at Southern Oregon University. She is the recipient of a Panta Rhea Foundation grant to support bringing Tree Dreams into schools.
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