Carmen Gilmore

Author. Inkmaker. Artisinal Mapmaker.

Carmen Gilmore is an environmentalist and essayist based on Treaty 6 territory, Canada. She is interested in our connections to place and the memories and stories that lie just beneath the surface.Her essays, critiques and reviews have appeared in the Land of Living Skies, The Field Stone Review, NiCHE, The Metropole, Quill & Quire, and the Blue Jay Journal, amongst others.She has received awards for both heritage and environmental education. In 2025, she presented at the National Trust on the connection between place and story.

Recent Publications

• Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss
• Regina Grassland Reserve Can Learn from Saskatoon's Mistakes
• The Colour of Ink
• Review of Understory: An Ecologist's Memoir of Hope and Loss
• From Victory Gardens to Living Schoolyards
• Deeper conversation needed on why we apply names in Saskatchewan
• From Vacant to Vital: Rethinking the Role of Empty Lots in North American Cities
• When Conservation Fails: Measuring Conservation Baseline and Goals as Saskatoon becomes a National Urban Park

Nature art from Woodland Art Adventures can be accessed from YouTube below.

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