Alison Swan

About Me: Creative work is my passion. Saving the Saugatuck Dunes has been my husband David Swan's and my focus since 2001. You can find my writing in The Saugatuck Dunes: Artists Respond to a Freshwater Landscape; Michigan: Our Land, Our Water, Our Heritage; and in my Michigan Notable Book, Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes, a collection of true stories about the lakes by poets, novelists, and others intimate with the lakes.
Location: Saugatuck, Michigan
Occupation: writer, teacher, activist
Interests: the role of creative work in getting people to re-imagine themselves as inhabitants of ecosystems