About the Author
I'm Marie Goodwin. I make my home in the little town of Media, Pennsylvania with my husband and two teen children. I am (or have been) an archaeologist, a teacher, an activist, a homesteader, a world-traveler, a Ph.D. student, an art exhibition coordinator, a potter, a student of permaculture and herbalism, a mentor, a community organizer, and both an editor as well as a writer.
I find myself in a constant, somewhat dizzying, dance of change as I grow and explore new interests and the boundaries of older, persistent questions.I have a restless and inquisitive mind. My research interests range from ancient and medieval history to modern politics, radical economics to attachment theory, alternative medicine to de-colonizing education, plant intelligence to permaculture, community activism to brain science, epistemology to life-learning, re-skilling to ancestral health, indigenous wisdom to the science of connection, ancient philosophy to astrophysics, and a whole lot in between. And the beauty of it all? It is all connected through the mycelium of story.
Somewhat to my own surprise, these interests have culminated in the creation of a novel of alternative historical fiction set in medieval Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Vinland. The Other Land is the first book of what is envisaged as a trilogy.
I find myself in a constant, somewhat dizzying, dance of change as I grow and explore new interests and the boundaries of older, persistent questions.I have a restless and inquisitive mind. My research interests range from ancient and medieval history to modern politics, radical economics to attachment theory, alternative medicine to de-colonizing education, plant intelligence to permaculture, community activism to brain science, epistemology to life-learning, re-skilling to ancestral health, indigenous wisdom to the science of connection, ancient philosophy to astrophysics, and a whole lot in between. And the beauty of it all? It is all connected through the mycelium of story.
Somewhat to my own surprise, these interests have culminated in the creation of a novel of alternative historical fiction set in medieval Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Vinland. The Other Land is the first book of what is envisaged as a trilogy.