Ann Russell

Ann Russell

About the Author

Ann Russell is a marine scientist and former goat-walker and commercial fisher living in Davis, California. She published her first article in American Girl when she was nineteen years old, about her job as a groom at a thoroughbred racetrack. She bought herself a motorcycle with the proceeds. After publishing scientific articles, she now writes memoir and creative non-fiction essays about our relationships with each other and with the natural world.

Episodes

Volume 2 Episode 2

Jim Purdy takes us on a flavorful journey through Central Texas barbecue, from his first taste of smoky Austin brisket to a lifelong quest to recapture that perfect bite. David Blake turns a summer evening in Normandy into a fiery, hilarious Tex-Mex adventure, complete with hot sauce mishaps and a family-inspired country ballad. And Ann Russell immerses us in the final summer at Fish Camp, capturing leaping salmon, tireless net hauling, and the bittersweet rhythms of a life spent on the river.

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Volume 1 Episode 2

Once Kathi Hickey decides what will cure her cluster headaches, not even a major earthquake can prevent her treatment. Ann Russell imagines that the sound of the meteor which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs was loud beyond measure. But what is the sound of the species that we lose everyday?

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