Paul Lindholdt


Paul Lindholdt is an American author, ecocritic, editor, and professor from Seattle, Washington. Currently at Eastern Washington University, Lindholdt received a 2012 Washington State Book Award for his ecological memoir In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau. Previously, he won recognition regionally from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Academy of American Poets.

Professorship

Lindholdt began his career as a lecturer at Idaho State University from 1984–87 and then continued as a lecturer at Western Washington University from 1987–90. In 1990 he took a position at the University of Idaho as a visiting assistant professor until migrating back to his home state of Washington as a lecturer at Eastern Washington University in 1994. He was promoted to Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of English from 2007–present. Students rank him among the ten most popular teachers at his university.

Recognition

Lindholdt married Karen Palrang at High Rock Lookout on Mt. Rainier in August 1994. They met when Karen, a law student at the University of Idaho, joined an environmental campaign Lindholdt was organizing. They have two grown sons together and homes in Spokane, Washington, and Sandpoint, Idaho.
Educated at Penn State and Western Washington University, Lindholdt studied creative writing under poet John Balaban and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard.