Paul Lindholdt

Paul Lindholdt is an American academic. Originally from Seattle, he teaches now at Eastern Washington University. He won a Washington State Book Award for his ecological memoir In Earshot of Water and earlier recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Academy of American Poets.

Professorship
After earning his PhD, Lindholdt began his career as a lecturer at Idaho State University from 1984–87 then continued at Western Washington University from 1987–90. In 1990 he visited as assistant professor at the University of Idaho until migrating back to his home state of Washington in 1994 and settling at Eastern Washington University. Promoted to Assistant Professor (1997–2003), Associate Professor (2003–07), and Professor of English from 2007–present, he ranks among the ten most effective teachers.

Lindholdt earned his PhD in early American literature, emphasizing environmental humanities vis-à-vis the sciences in colonial America. His teaching ranges from freshman honors to graduate research seminars. He has spoken at three symposia in France and dozens of stateside conferences.

Recognition

 * Washington State Book Award for Biography / Memoir, 2012, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press, 2011).
 * First Place and Second Place, Society of Professional Journalists, Region 10, Energy and Environmental Reporting, 2000.
 * Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize, Academy of American Poets, Penn State University, 1984.

Major works

 * Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist. Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
 * Making Landfall: Poems, Farmington, Maine: Encircle Publications, 2018.
 * The Spokane River, edited, cowritten, and introduced. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
 * Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
 * In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
 * The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. [1862.] Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
 * Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West. Introduction and edited with Derrick Knowles. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.
 * History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians. [1901.] Phoenix: Marquette Books, 2004. Edited and introduction.
 * Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem. Edited with Mitch Friedman. Bellingham, Washington: Greater Ecosystem Alliance, 1993.
 * John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of 'Two Voyages to New-England'. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988.

Shorter work samples
Since 2012, Lindholdt has been a contributing historian for HistoryLink, the open-source Seattle-based encyclopedia of Washington State history, and a narrative editor for Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy founded in Canada in 1983 as the leading periodical on Deep Ecology.
 * "A Braided Stream: On Keats Conley's Guidance from the God of Seahorses." Poetry Northwest, Dec. 30, 2022.
 * "Making Landfall." John Burroughs Essay Award nominee, Terrain.org., Aug 5. 2019.
 * "A Warrior's Portrait." Spokesman-Review Dec. 1, 2013.
 * "Lokout (1834-1913)." HistoryLink Oct. 13, 2013
 * "Antidotes to Humanism." The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 28.1 (2012).
 * "From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection." Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (January 2009): 1-25.
 * "The Fine Art of Bureaucracy." High Country News Jan. 19, 2009.
 * "Theodore Winthrop in the Washington Territory." Columbia Spring 2007.
 * "An Iconography of American Sabotage." Nature et Progrès: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations. Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Presses de l'université, Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 151-68.

Personal life
Lindholdt married Karen Palrang at High Rock Lookout on Mt. Rainier in August 1994. As a law student at the University of Idaho, she signed on to an environmental campaign Lindholdt was organizing. They have two grown sons and divide their time between Spokane, Washington, and Sandpoint, Idaho.

Educated at Penn State (PhD 1985) and Western Washington University (MA 1980, BA 1978), Lindholdt studied creative writing with Annie Dillard and is working on a biography of her.