Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears

As a daughter of a wildlife biologist growing up in the Canadian wilderness, I’ve been fascinated with bears since I was a child. When I was only five years old, my father brought home an orphaned cub for a night before he brought it to a zoo. I grew up reading the canon of bear literature the same way a black bear, or grizzly bear, gorges on berries before denning up for the winter. That nearly all of my favorite bear books were written by male…