The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake
Rob Carney · Danielle Beazer Dubrasky · Claire Wahmanholm · Natalie Young · Nan Seymour · Brooke Williams · Joel Long · Nicole Walker · Willy Palomo · Scott Morris · Justin Evans · Charles Waugh · Terry Tempest Williams · Rachel White · Kylan Rice · Katherine Indermaur · Sylvia Torti · Eli McCann · Star Coulbrooke · Lindsey Webb · Paisley Rekdal · Andy Hoffmann · Adam O. Davis · Karin Anderson · Scott Abbott · Dayna Patterson · Katherine Coles · Sarah May · Marissa Beckström · Ayja Bounous · Teri Harman · Brooke Larsen · Jared Farmer · Lisa Bickmore · Sarah L. Fox
Mar 2026 · Torrey House Press
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"A moving tribute."
—ANNE HOLMAN, The King's English Bookshop
For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands for industry, Great Salt Lake could vanish entirely within five years. A refuge for more than 330 species of migrating birds, the lake also keeps vast swathes of the western United States habitable by keeping naturally occurring arsenic, toxic dust, and other health hazards trapped safely in the earth.
The Once and Future Lake brings together nature writers, scientists, and storytellers to reveal the beauty of this complex ecosystem and to proclaim a future where Great Salt Lake will once again thrive—as long as we act before it’s too late. Through essay, story, and poetry, these writers show how intertwined the lake’s fate is with our own and that restoring and rewilding Great Salt Lake is possible, practical, ambitious, and essential.
—ANNE HOLMAN, The King's English Bookshop
For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands for industry, Great Salt Lake could vanish entirely within five years. A refuge for more than 330 species of migrating birds, the lake also keeps vast swathes of the western United States habitable by keeping naturally occurring arsenic, toxic dust, and other health hazards trapped safely in the earth.
The Once and Future Lake brings together nature writers, scientists, and storytellers to reveal the beauty of this complex ecosystem and to proclaim a future where Great Salt Lake will once again thrive—as long as we act before it’s too late. Through essay, story, and poetry, these writers show how intertwined the lake’s fate is with our own and that restoring and rewilding Great Salt Lake is possible, practical, ambitious, and essential.
"A moving tribute."
—ANNE HOLMAN, The King's English Bookshop
For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming...
About the author
MICHAEL MCLANE is the author of the chapbooks Fume and Trace Elements. He is a founding editor of the journal saltfront, the review editor for Sugar House Review and a poetry editor for Dark Mountain. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Western Humanities Review, Colorado Review, Laurel Review, Interim, Utah Historical Quarterly, and South Dakota Review. He recently earned a PhD from Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters. McLane is from Salt Lake City, Utah, and lives in New Zealand.
MICHAEL MCLANE is the author of the chapbooks Fume and Trace Elements. He is a founding editor of the journal saltfront, the review editor for Sugar House Review and a poetry editor for Dark Mountain. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Western Humanities Review,...
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