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Conversations with birds

""Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar"--

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Main Author:	Kumar, Priyanka, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Kumar, Priyanka, > 1973- Birds > West (U.S.) Bird watching > West (U.S.) Human-animal relationships > West (U.S.) Bird watchers > United States > Biography. Women authors, American > 21st century > Biography. West (U.S.) > Environmental conditions.
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Summary:	""Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar"--
Physical Description:	281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781571313997 1571313990
Author Notes:	Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds. Her essays and criticism appear in The New York Times , The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books , The Huffington Post , and High Country News . She is a recipient of the Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor's Award, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, an Ontario Arts Council Literary Award, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship. A graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kumar wrote, directed and produced the featuredocumentary The Song of the Little Road , starring Martin Scorsese and Ravi Shankar. Kumar has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Southern California, and serves on the Board of Directors at the Leopold Writing Program. "