Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.

A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this guide introduces the reader to seventy indigenous species found in Northern Appalachia, a region comprising parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. As a hybrid literary and natural history anthology, the book consists of descriptions and notes on habitat, range, and ecology provided by six scientists with expertise in the region’s flora and fauna. In addition, eleven artists and seventy poets have provided original artwork and poetry that illuminate the lives of the greater-than-human world.

Defying easy stereotypes, the guide presents trees, shrubs, wildflowers and mammals, birds and fish, reptiles and amphibians, and invertebrates and fungi. Love and wonder for these ancient mountains and their ever-evolving residents flood the pages of this book, inviting the reader into a deeper way of knowing a place and the lives dependent on it.

Contributions by: janan alexandra, David Baker, Susan Barba, Sarah Barber, Robin Becker, Lisa Bellamy, Dave Bonta, Elizabeth Bradfield, Joseph J. Capista, Stacie Cassarino, George David Clark, Grant Clauser, J.L. Conrad, Geffrey Davis, Noah Davis, Todd Davis, Alison Deming, Chard deNiord, Rebecca Foust, Hannah Fries, Michael Garrigan, Adam Giannelli, Margaret Gibson, Charity Gingerich, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Willard P. Greenwood, Jeff Gundy, K.A. Hays, John Hodgen, Henry Hughes, M.J. Iuppa, Julie Swarstad Johnson, Kasey Jueds, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Daniel Lassell, Sydney Lea, Diane LeBlanc, Xiaoly Li, Anni Liu, Marjorie Maddox, Kerrin McCadden, Abby Minor, Roger Mitchell, Nik Moore, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leah Poole Osowski, Sean Prentiss, L. Renée, Jack Ridl, Christina Seymour, Neil Shepard, Julia Shipley, Betsy Sholl, David Shumate, Matthew J. Spireng, Eleanor Stanford, Jordan Temchack, Philip Terman, Chase Twichell, Lee Upton, Judith Vollmer, Ryan Walsh, Henry Walters, Jerry Wemple, Karen J. Weyant, Joe Wilkins, Emily Beam, Joe Beam, Allyson Comstock, Roberto D’Amanda, Ashley Hamersma, Gary Hawkins, Talley V. Kayser, Gwen Noll, Ray Noll, Henry Shearon, Quinlin Taylor, Sarah E. Allen, Carl Engstrom, Jerry D. Hassinger, Carolyn Mahan, Andrew L. Shiels, Hannah L. (Cave) Stout, Sarah Blake, Shara McCallum