Helen Whybrow is a writer, editor, and lifelong organic farmer whose book about shepherding, land, and belonging, The Salt Stones, was longlisted for the National Book Award and chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Her other titles include Dead Reckoning and A Man Apart. She has a master’s degree in journalism and has taught writing at Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She and her family farm and steward a refuge for land justice in Fayston, Vermont.