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“My work has been motivated,” Wendell Berry has written, “by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.”

Wendell Berry was born in Newcastle, Kentucky, 1934.  He earned both his B.A. and his M.A. at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and still calls Kentucky home today.  At the heart of Berry’s work is his native land.  He has written over thirty books of poetry, essays and novels.

His collections of poetry include A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997, Entries: Poems, Traveling at Home, Collected Poems 1957-1982, and The Broken Ground.   Remembering and A World Lost are among his critically praised novels.

Berry has dedicated his life’s work to defending the traditional family farm, and rural communities. He is a fierce supporter of the preservation of ecological diversity and an educator on the ecological principles, small town economies and rural communities:

He and his wife live with their two children on a farm, the family farm, in Port Royal, Kentucky.