Gretchen Legler is currently an Master’s of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, focusing on the intersections of spirituality and ecology. She is on leave from her position as a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she specializes in memoir writing, the personal essay, and nonfiction essays about the natural world. She has taught in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage and in the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, and often offers community workshops on writing and the environment.

Previous to her stint at Divinity School, she and her partner, singer-songwirter Ruth Hill, owned a small farm in Western Maine, raising goats and chickens and their year’s supply of food. When not in Cambridge, MA, Gretchen lives in a one-room rustic cabin on a pond in the woods. In her community of Farmington, ME, Gretchen has been on the board of SAPARS, a volunteer chaplain at Franklin Memorial Hospital, and is the co-founder of the Left Bank of the Sandy River Gay & Lesbian Literature and Cultural Salon.