Hello! I'm a writer and a poet. I love to travel.  I love to walk and observe nature. I like to lead workshops and chat with audiences. I worked as a librarian for many years. ... and I got a degree in Outdoor Teacher Education along the way. Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, With 21 Activities, a middle school biography and activity book, was released by Chicago Review Press in January 2016. Check out my new videos for it! My first nonfiction book, Westward I Go Free:  Tracing Thoreau's Last Journey, was published in 2012.  I teach the four-week online course "Reconnecting with the Wild through Writing," via the We Are Wildness U web site. I will lead a 9-day group bus tour, following Henry Thoreau's path through the American Midwest, in May-June 2017. Read more about it.   Recent press: Podcast for the Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon, June 2016. My half begins after you hear "Blackbird" at minute 33. "'Henry David Thoreau for Kids' uses activities to connect kids with nature," by Tom Montgomery Fate, Chicago Tribune, April 14, 2016. "Local author tells kids to 'go for a walk' and  take a lesson from Henry David Thoreau," by Tom Knapp, LNP [Lancaster Newspapers], March 6, 2016. "Talking with Corinne Hosfeld Smith, author of Henry David Thoreau for Kids," by Susan Bailey, with an accompanying review, on the blog Louisa May Alcott Is My Passion.           Sign up for my quarterly newsletter here.

Photo: Corinne at Fairhaven Bay, Concord MA, by Henrik Otterberg, 2016.