The voices of the wild are everywhere, including inside ourselves.
Mary Taylor Young
Writing on Landscape, Heritage & Place
Just Published!
From Chicago Review Press
"...A Sand County Almanac for our time."
The author discovers a secret hidden in her 25-year nature journal...
Climate change wasn't on the public's radar in 1995...
...when Mary Taylor Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in the Colorado Rockies. They built a cabin, set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and began a nature journal of observations...
Recent Awards & Honors
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Authors' League
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Authors' League
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Authors' League
"Recognizing the outstanding work, significant contributions, and distinguished achievements of a member of the Colorado Authors' League during a long and successful career in the publishing arts."
2019 Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Authors' League
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Authors' League
Inducted into the Hall of Fame's inaugural class of prominent Colorado authors along with Stephen King, Madeline Albright, Connie Willis and others.
2018 Frank Waters Award
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Authors' League
2018 Frank Waters Award
Awarded for exemplary literary achievement and a canon of writing that communicates a deep understanding, celebration, and love of the West. Past winners include Barbara Kingsolver, Tony Hillerman, Margaret Coel and CJ Box.
Author of 22 books...
...Mary Taylor Young has spent more than 35 years celebrating the landscape, wildlife and heritage of Colorado and the American West. Winner of numerous awards, she is one of the best-known nature and wildlife writers in Colorado.
In her upcoming book, Bluebird Seasons, Mary shares her personal story of realizing the evidence of advancing climate change on her land in southern Colorado. "I've spent my career persuading audiences to support the conservation of wildlife. But a much greater threat faces life on Earth. For the balance of my career, I will focus on the urgency of the climate crisis."