Priyanka Kumar

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Conversations with Birds is a 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist.

Priyanka Kumar is the award-winning author of Conversations with Birds, widely acclaimed as “a landmark book” that “could help people around the world rewild their hearts and souls….” (Psychology Today). Her essays and criticism appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Orion, and High Country News. She has been featured on CBS News Radio and Oprah Daily, and honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.

Kumar wrote, directed and produced the feature documentary The Song of the Little Roa
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Conversations with Birds

3.53 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions
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Take Wing and Fly Here

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“I will never forget the sun-soaked afternoon when we stood under the shade of a tree and talked. How quickly and astonishingly the gap between us bridged. In the end we were both concerned children of the land and it grew clear that stifling my voice in the interest of politeness would be unconscionable.”
Priyanka Kumar, Conversations with Birds

“Something cathartic happened that night. After tears rolled freely out during the dance, I felt clearer and wide-open and strangely closer to the Ortiz Mountains that loomed before me in the smoky blue air. Once again I felt like a child of the universe, dancing in the green folds of the earth.”
Priyanka Kumar, Conversations with Birds

“The absence of the tanager is but one indicator of the disruption we have inflicted and the root of this disruption is within us. We haven't been good neighbors on this planet. If we could see how our solipsism harms other animals, we might take more responsibility to remedy the harm we have done. When we heal the planet, it in turn heals us. It truly is a circle, like the glaucous Earth and the scuffed moon, like the round, round window that I was about to inherit.”
Priyanka Kumar, Conversations with Birds

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