Planting Trees: Charlotte Gill at TEDxPowellRiver

http://tedxpowellriver.com/ For two decades Charlotte Gill worked as a tree-planter in clear cuts all across Canada. Her bestselling memoir, Eating Dirt: Deep Forest, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-planting Tribe, journeys through B.C.'s coastal rainforests in exploration of the wild and solitary lives of professional reforestation workers.

Eating Dirt was nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, the Charles Taylor Prize, and two B.C. Book Prizes. It won the 2012 B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction, one of Canada's largest literary prizes.

Her previous book, Ladykiller, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and winner of the B.C. Book Prize for fiction. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Stories, and many newspapers and magazines. Gill teaches creative writing at UBC and the Banff Centre, and has lived in Powell River since 2011.

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