About

Rhonda Waterhouse is originally from Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Secondary English Education and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University. She holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction with a focus on environmental writing from UNC Wilmington, where she also teaches. Her work explores themes of nature, disability, family, and gender. Among other journals, her work appears in Coastal Review, Black Warrior Review, American Submariner, Assay, storySouth, and Banyan Review. A semifinalist for North Carolina Literary Review’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize and a Brauer Fellow, she is at work on a memoir about brain injury and the healing power of trees. Rhonda is a member of the Wilmington Tree Commission, ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), The Alliance for Cape Fear Trees, and the Wilmington City Parks & Recreation Advisory Board. With their five children now grown, Rhonda, her partner, and their dog greet many sunrises on Wrightsville Beach, experiencing the connection between healing and the natural world.