Barbara Hurd teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
The Epilogues (2021)
Listening to the Savage / River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (2016)
Tidal Rhythms: Change and Resilience at the Edge of the Sea (with photographer Stephen Strom, 2016)
Stepping into the Same River Twice (with artist Patricia Hilton) 2013
Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008)
Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003)
The Singer's Temple (2003)
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (2001)
Objects in this Mirror (1994)
Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including
Best American Essays 1999
Best American Essays 2001
The Yale Review
The Georgia Review
Orion, Audubon and others
2015 Guggenheim Fellowship
NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction
Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award
Three Pushcart Prizes
Five Maryland State Arts Council Awards