Sheila Dearden

About Sheila

I have loved being outdoors from the moment I learned to walk and I have been writing stories from the time I could hold a pencil.  Growing up in the heart of rural England in the early 1960s, I was a feral nature child whose head and pockets were filled with nature’s wonders; feathers, frogs, caterpillars, conkers and the occasional baby hedgehog. My heart was rooted in the landscape of home: wildflower meadows, woods and hills brimming with bluebells, blackbirds, badgers, cowslips, cuckoos, hedgehogs, skylarks, beech and oak trees. I moved to Washington State in the 1980s. Temporarily. No more than two years. Close to forty years later I am still in the Pacific Northwest. Today, my home is salmon, orca, rufous hummingbirds, gray whales, Swainson’s thrushes, black bears, coyote, Douglas fir, western red cedar. My heart, intact, is rooted firmly in two beautiful, half a world apart places. With a master’s in environmental education I am a long-time naturalist, an avid storyteller and a lifelong advocate of wonder, curiosity and astonishment.

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