Doug Carlson is retired from two separate vocations: first as a teacher, ultimately a visiting writer-in-residence at Concordia College in Minnesota, and later as an editor—after 15 years on the staff of The Georgia Review. Essays on natural and cultural history have appeared periodically and in A Place Apart and The Sacred Place. His nonfiction has been collected in two books: 1995’s At the Edge and 1999’s When We Say We’re Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory. An eponymous examination of the life and work of wildlife artist and birding patriarch Roger Tory Peterson was published in 2007. With The Georgia Review colleague Soham Patel, Doug co-edited This Impermanent Earth, published in 2021.
