Kelsey

Hi Jim, I hope this email finds you well! Christie Green would love the opportunity to be a guest on your podcast. She recently released her book Moonlight Elk: One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom.

Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her New Mexico garden. As an act of practical agency this fulfilled her needs, yet a restlessness stirred within. A woman longing for a life defined by something deeper than weekly schedules, work roles, and cultural norms, Christie Green learned to hunt elk, turkey, deer, and other animals throughout her home state of New Mexico.

Layer by layer, hunt by hunt, Green peels away societal skins that adhered to a prescribed grid, a manufactured tick of time, a picture of perfection. Tracking and tracing, moving in darkness, watching, smelling, listening, and following the animals, Green sheds the burdens of her domestic self and instead witnesses the animals defying reason as they walk her into their world, ambling her along, straddling night and day, waking and sleeping. Their ways of moving and sensing become her model. In the process, Green eclipses western society’s definitions of her as a woman, mother, lover, and business owner in a male-dominated industry and ultimately finds independence, courage, and a profound connection to the animals and the places they call home.

What she sought from these animals was food. What she found was freedom.

Christie Green harvests food for herself and her daughter and hunts solo in the eight eco-regions of New Mexico, as well as multiple other states. She was raised in Alaska. To learn more, visit https://www.christiegreen.net

Would you be interested in reading Moonlight Elk or interviewing Christie Green? We would love to send you a complimentary copy of the book (ebook, audiobook, or hardcover) and Christie would welcome the opportunity to speak with you! We can also send you her media kit with talking points and sample interview questions. Let me know your thoughts, if you have any questions, or if you need any additional information.

Thanks so much,
Kelsey