About

Welcome! I’m Evie, a writer living in Connecticut near the Long Island Sound. This region is the traditional homeland of the Mohegan and Hammonasset peoples. It’s also known for its sparkling coves and salt marshes, its coastal wildlife, and its history — with generations of farmers and fishers, shipbuilders, artists, lighthouse keepers, basket weavers, naturalists, and so many more. When I’m not busy collecting stories, I enjoy watching shorebirds leave their tiny footprints in the sand. I try to bring this same attention to my writing each day.

I studied journalism and history, with a focus on environmental history through the intersection of the humanities and sciences. While completing my graduate degree in 2014, I worked on the New York Botanical Garden’s Groundbreakers exhibition, which celebrated 20th-century female landscape designers. My graduate thesis, Cultivating Wildness: Ecological Aesthetics in the British Landscape, 1870-1910, explored natural history writing and the creation of wild gardens in response to the enclosure of common lands.

I frequently contribute to a non-profit public history & humanities project for cultural landmarks, historic sites, museums, parks, and public art. Apart from my historical writing, my poems and essays appear in places such as The Dark Mountain Project, Poets for Science, Connecticut River Review, The Madrid Review, and Parabola Magazine, as well as the anthology, In the Garden: Community Storytelling on Food, Ecology, & Place from Torrey House Press (2022).

For inquiries about freelance work, you’re welcome to email me: jenevieve.carlyn {at} gmail.com. In the meantime, I hope that today brings you a moment of wonder in this beautiful, challenging world.

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and the sun and the animals…” ~ Walt Whitman