Writer Specializing in Nature-Connected Life Writing
Kathleen Donchak has dedicated three decades to developing a narrative approach to nature connection that bridges personal healing and ecological awareness. Through her doctoral research in Applied EcoArts, she defended the importance of developing a unique language of nature connection as a pathway to authentic living. Through her memoir writing, weekly Sunday Letters, and publishing work, Donchak continues to show how sustained attention to what calls us in nature reveals patterns that become our personal vocabulary for wellbeing.
Books
Natural Hours: A Practice Memoir
Donchak, K. (Fall 2025). Hours Press.
This contemplative chapbook memoir documents a thirty-year journey from crisis to sustainable wellbeing through nature connection and authentic writing. Demonstrating how place relationships are interconnected across time, the book shows how fragments captured through sustained attention accumulate into solid ground for whatever life asks us to meet.
Kathleen Donchak, Ph.D., 2025