Inside the Turbulent Journey of Sarah Boon: Secrets Behind the Rise and Fall of a Field Scientist
I spoke via Zoom with Sarah Boon from western Canada.
Hillary Moses Mohaupt: First, congratulations on this book, which I found so engaging and meditative, steeped both in science and in an awe for the natural world, and such a great book about creating a writing life. In the prologue you write, “Field researchers thrive on a specific set of skills and attributes: resilience, self-reliance, creative problem-solving, and the ability to focus on the moment to decide what needs to be done.” (xvii) At the end of the book you talk about the ways that fieldwork and writing are similar, but to what extent do you think these same field skills are useful to writers?
