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Emily Iris Dane

Emily Iris Degn (Emily Degn) is a Seattle-based travel, climate, and nature writer, eco-poet, and Founder/Editorial Director of Blinter Magazine.

Jul 29, 2026

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You get this sense of like this lake, this lake community, all of us here in the presence of water.
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My name is Emily Iris Dane and I tell stories about place.
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I'm the writer in residence at Seattle Public Library and the author of Warmly the Wild.
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I came home to Fidalgo Island.
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A red-winged blackbird perches in the reeds and wetlands as a morning fog weaves its way among the shore pines.
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The faint smell of last night's campfire distills itself into the black dirt and into my hair, spun and woven with dew and clementine shades.
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I walk towards the waterline.

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