Trebbe Johnson

Trebbe Johnson is the author of On the Moors of Omaha: Essays, Fierce Consciousness: Surviving the Sorrows of Earth and Self, Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places, and other books, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and former director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. Trebbe speaks five languages; camped alone in the Arctic wilderness; studied classical Indian dance; and worked as an artist's model, a street sweeper in an English village, and an award-winning multimedia producer. She has led contemplative journeys in a clear-cut forest, Ground Zero in New York, the Sahara Desert, and with military veterans. She lives in Ithaca, New York.