About

Getting Dirty is a project by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, a writer located in Livingston, Montana. If you’d like to see more about here work, you can find it here.

Her previous blog project, from 2003-2023 was LivingSmall: The Subversive Power of Scaling Down.

She has an MA from UC Davis, and a PhD from the University of Utah. She was involved for many years with the late lamented, Art of the Wild Writer’s Conference at Olympic Valley in California.

In 2000, Picador USA published her novel, Place Last Seen. It was reviewed in the New York Times, and was a San Francisco Chronicle top ten selection. Since the early 2000s, she’s been concentrating on nonfiction, and has been published in Dark Mountain, Terrain, Big Sky Journal, Montana Quarterly and other venues. She had an essay included in the 2010 edition of Best Food Writing. She was also the cookbook reviewer at Bookslut for a number of years.

She is currently working on a memoir: Wilderness of Bones, and a collection of essays, Material World.