"Green has the mind of a scientist and the heart of a poet. Her passion for the creatures she encounters and the land she wanders shines through every word."--Janie Chodosh, coauthor of Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love
"Moonlight Elk is courageous, pro-woman prose that unfolds in the crucible of the natural world."--Holly Morris, director of Exposure and author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
"The author's capacity to forge a connection to the animals she hunts and the places she traverses is grounded by her meticulous descriptions of environment, ecology, geography, topography, animal behavior, and even anatomy during post-hunt processing. As she sheds the influence of men during her hunting ventures, in a visceral sense she transcends into independence, courage, and connection to place and to the hunt itself."--Sandra K. Mathews, author of Between Breaths: A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush
"Moonlight Elk is a riveting meditation on sustenance and love--in food, in nature, in family. Christie Green's personal journey is woven with natural history and questions about what it means to be a human animal in the more-than-human world. This book is beautiful, deeply felt, and wise."--Ramona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal
"Moonlight Elk tracks the electric presence of a hunter who 'burn(s) for belonging' in the land and among the animals. . . This book will re-map your heart."--Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
"Christie Green invites readers on a sacred, surprising, and sometimes brutal journey as she explores the deepest of possible connections between herself and the elk, deer, turkey, and quail that she hunts and kills to fill her freezer and feed her family. As she gains confidence to hunt alone as a woman, Green closely tracks the boundary between human and animal, moving ever closer to a place of elemental exchange; in the end she discovers that there is no other."--Gretchen Legler, author of Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
"Moonlight Elk is a brave unveiling that takes us to the intersection of what we know and what we sense in a given place with lyrical curiosity, offering an unexpected call to explore beneath the surface of a map or a hunt and expose a life of sensuous meaning. A daring and revealing book."--Christine Cunningham, coauthor of The Land We Share: A Love Affair Told in Hunting Stories