Jan DeBlieu
Jan DeBlieu is an American writer whose work often focuses on how people are shaped by the landscapes in which they live. Her own writing has been influenced by her adopted home in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
She is the author of four books including Hatteras Journal, Meant to Be Wild, Wind (which won theJohn Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing) and Year of the Comets. She also has written for Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and Orion.
In 2003 she was named the Cape Hatteras Coastkeeper for the North Carolina Coastal Federation.