About the Author

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Joseph Bruchac lives in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Native American ancestry. Although his northeastern American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished. 

Praise For…

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“Joseph Bruchac is among our wisest and most enduring storytellers. His voice, his flute, and his tales are grace notes. A Year of Moons speaks to the cyclic nature of Western Abenaki home ground. Within these pages, readers will find an incantation of attention, patience, and what endures through the generations: a fierce love of place.” –Terry Tempest Williams, Author of The Hour of Land
 
“Bruchac’s A Year of Moons weaves seasonal observations, remembrances, and stories into each chapter, engaging the reader's imagination, heart, and senses, and then wraps up each one with beautiful haiku. A journey not to be missed!” –Traci Sorell, Author of Powwow Day
 
“I really appreciate A Year of Moons. It is, in my opinion, not only a summing up of a year, but in many ways a thoughtful glimpse into the world of an extremely talented writer and philosopher. In particular, he makes the Adirondacks vivid and near personal for this Mississippi Delta swamp rat.”
– Geary Hobson, Author and Poet

“Bruchac's A Year of Moons weaves seasonal observations, remembrances, and stories into each chapter, engaging the reader's imagination, heart, and senses, and then wraps up each one with beautiful haiku. A journey not to be missed!” —Traci Sorell, Author of Pow Wow Day

“A Year of Moons is a rich, eclectic combination of what Bruchac has seen and learned. . . He tells of that life in a gentle storyteller’s voice, the kind one listens to at a table in a pub or sitting around a campfire." —Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac is a Finalist in the BIPOC category in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, which is the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers.

A Year of Moons is the winner of the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards in Nature/Indigenous/First-Nations Non-Fiction.

Winner in Nature/Indigenous/First-Nations Nonfiction

Winner in the nature category for the NYC Big Book Award