Welcome to Wild Story.
My name is Jenny O’Connell. I’m an award-winning writer, outdoor guide, environmental storyteller, and professor of creative writing. I write full time for the Appalachian Mountain Club, freelance for magazines, and I’m finishing up a book about my solo trek across Finland’s Arctic Circle in the footsteps of a legendary woman.
Wild Story is a collection of creative notes and life prompts for staying wild, tender, awake, and connected in a world that would have us forget that’s who we are.
Some of the stories you’ll find here are wild in the sense that they revolve around rivers, mountains, long walks, and backcountry (mis)adventures. Some wrestle with the creative process. Some are wildly funny, or just plan weird. Others are quieter; wild in the sense that they’re about radically paying attention, mapping deep joy, becoming more ourselves.
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Let’s be wildhearts together. I know you feel it, too.
