Lauren Hall Ruddell
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Lauren Hall Ruddell

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Lauren Hall Ruddell (that's me) writes what she knows...animals, farming, nature, and psychology. As a wildlife biologist, zookeeper, farmer, and professor of Natural Resource Management, I always enjoy bringing aspects of those skills and experiences into my writing. My passion for sustainable agriculture is obvious in The Peony Creek Mysteries about a Rocky Mountain farmer, her travails, life, and loves. Oh, and her need to solve murders in between milking goats, making cheese, and wrangling farmhands (the heroine that is, not Lauren herself)! Her 4-book mystery series is part cozy, and part serious mystery with some timely topics on environmental and social justice thrown in. Not a cupcake to be seen since I don't like them, but bear chili is featured, which I do like. Other works include Zoodulcis: Our Fascination with Animals, which relates to my love of the other creatures on this earth (most of them anyway, flies and mosquitos excluded). The Portolan, the first book of the Redoubtable series, illustrates my fascination and familiarity with western Irish history and culture. My latest non-fiction book, Renaturing, focuses on my academic interests. My PhD concerned the effects of time in nature on various kinds of attention and mood, and the benefits to human wellness of immersion in restorative natural environments. For relaxation, I hike as often as possible with my crazy pack goats (much like the heroine in the Peony Creek books). I also enjoy fine wine, time meditating in nature, playing the banjo and the bodhran (Irish drum) and daydreaming.
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