After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Carolyn Redl taught literature and creative writing for over thirty years. During that time, she also wrote and published essays, short stories, poems, travel articles, and book reviews in publications as diverse as The Edmonton Journal, AMA Insider, Prairie Journal of Canadian Fiction, and University of Toronto Quarterly as well as CBC. She was co-producer of "A Woman I Know: Canadian Literature by Women, an eight-part series of programs for ACCESS, the Education Channel. She has published one book of poetry: earthbound (Ottawa: Borealis Press); one memoir, A Canadian Childhood (Victoria: Friesen), and one memoir/nature/travel book: Four Seasons by the Salish Sea (Victoria: Heritage House Publishers).
Aspects of nature appear in every genre from scientific, nature, and travel articles to poetry, fiction, and essays. It may function to develop character, create atmosphere, advance the plot, and express emotions to name a few. First and foremost, it serves the obvious function: to inform readers about the natural world. Without elements from nature our world and literature would be very sterile. In my talks, I will use examples from my own writing as well as from the writings of others, to exemplify the functions of nature in literature. In my workshops, I will supplement these with visual images of my or their choice to encourage participants to write, using nature to serve these roles.
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