Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

Nov 12, 2024 | writinginthedark.substack.com | Jeannine Ouellette

All creatures know love. All creatures. I’ve thought of this line almost every day for several years. It started while I was preparing to teach an animal writing class on Zoom (held jointly between my students at Shakopee Prison and a group of outside writers from Writing in the Dark). I was reading a lot of books featuring animals, one of which was Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. It’s a novel about a biologist who studies wolves and reintroduces wolves to their natural habitats.