⸻ Author & Naturalist Writer

Evie
Fawbush

Stories rooted in soil, season, and the slow unfolding of wild things.

author & naturalist

"Every garden holds a story the rain has already begun to tell."

Evie Fawbush grew up between the hedgerows of rural Vermont and the reading rooms of New England's oldest libraries. She spent her childhood making field journals of wildflowers and her adulthood turning those journals into literature.

Her writing moves between memoir, nature essay, and literary fiction — always with roots in the sensory world, always asking what it means to tend something: a plot of land, a friendship, a grief that hasn't finished growing.

She teaches creative nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and lives with her partner and two rescue dogs in the Champlain Valley.

6 Books
14 Awards
200k Readers

Selected Works

The Books

The Understory
Season
Evie Fawbush
The Understory Season
2023  ·  Literary Fiction
A novel about a botanist returning to her childhood home and the forest that has grown in her absence.
Field Notes on
Forgetting
Evie Fawbush
Field Notes on Forgetting
2020  ·  Memoir / Essay
A braided memoir weaving the cycles of a Vermont garden with the slow erosion of her mother's memory.
Where the Slow
Water Goes
Evie Fawbush
Where the Slow Water Goes
2017  ·  Literary Fiction
Two strangers meet during a flood and spend a week mapping the topography of their lives.

Fawbush writes about the natural world the way some writers write about the ocean — as if it were the only honest metaphor we have left.

— The New York Times Book Review

There is a patience to her prose that feels almost botanical itself — it unfurls slowly, deliberately, and then suddenly you are deep inside something beautiful.

— The Paris Review

A rare voice that manages to be both rigorous and tender. Her essays are essential reading for anyone who has ever tended a garden or buried something they loved.

— Orion Magazine

The Understory Season is the novel I will press into the hands of every reader who believes good fiction must also teach us how to pay attention.

— Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Upcoming Events

Book Evie
14 Jun 2026
Vermont Book Shop — Author Reading & Signing
Middlebury, VT
Reading
28 Jun 2026
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference — Faculty Panel
Ripton, VT
Panel
09 Aug 2026
Strand Book Store — In Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
New York, NY
Conversation
22 Sep 2026
Chicago Humanities Festival — Keynote Address
Chicago, IL
Keynote

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