Alessandra Rolffs is the executive director of Gathering Ground, a nonprofit with the mission to connect learners of all ages to nature, community and healthy food through sustainable farming education on Washington Island. She is also a writer, mother of two boys, and she helps operate Hoot Blossom, a flower and veggie farm, with her husband. Her poetry and essays have been published in The Southern Review, Spillway, About Place Journal and elsewhere. Her column Everyday Nature is published in the Washington Island Observer. She holds a PhD in Eco-Literature from UW-Milwaukee and MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University.
