• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author’s Note
• Celebrating “Freedom and Unity”
• FINDING ONE’S MATERIAL
• Howard Frank Mosher: Finding One’s Material in Vermont
• David Budbill - The Ornery Hermit Activist Poet
• Chris Bohjalian - Making Fiction of Fact
• Joseph A. Citro - Vermont’s Bard of the Bizarre
• Jeffrey Lent - Perseverance Furthers
• FINDING COMMUNITY AND NATURE
• David Moats - Public Writing
• Sydney Lea - Writing the World We Inhabit
• Grace Paley - Angelic-looking Grandmother with Revolution in her Heart
• Ellen Bryant Voigt - Song and Spirit
• David Huddle - The Writing Habit
• Galway Kinnell - Man’s Place in the Universe
• Jay Parini - The Writing Life
• FINDING SANCTUARY
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Making Sanctuary
• Jamaica Kincaid - Finding Your Voice
• Julia Alvarez - Bridging Two Worlds
• Ruth, Phoebe, and Abigail Stone - Creating the Creative Home
• Tom Smith - Finding Oneself
• Verandah Porche - Telling Other People’s Stories
• Joan Connor - Chronicling the Lives of the Forgotten, the Lost, and the Downright Weird
• Notes