Biography

Trebbe Johnson’s writing about myth, nature, and spirit has appeared in many media, from her narrative poem, “The Fruit of Eve,” which received a Poetry Society of America award; to her Telly Award-winning video, “Only One Earth,” produced for the United Nations celebration of Earth Day; to “Yards,” her essay about the wilderness in suburbia, for which she received a Pushcart Prize honorable mention.

She explored the social and spiritual implications of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute for Amicus Journal, Winds of Change, The Nation, Pacific News Service, and public radio. Her essays and articles have appeared in Parabola, the Los Angeles Times, Sierra, Harper’s, Boulevard, Yoga Journal, and many others, and in anthologies such as Kinship with Animals (ed. Solisti and Tobias) and Lively Oracle (ed. Draper).

Trebbe’s writing on the Beloved has appeared in Body and Soul (“The World’s Best Lover,” July-August 2003) and Parabola (“Wedding Night With the God,” Spring 2004).

The workshops she created to introduce the Beloved to others are presented throughout the United States, in Canada, and overseas. A popular speaker able to engage her audience quickly and weave a spell without notes, Trebbe also gives talks on the subject of the Beloved. She is the director of Vision Arrow, an organization offering adventures in allurement both in wild landscapes and in the heart.

She leads vision quests, workshops, and ceremonies worldwide. A passionate explorer of outer as well as inner frontiers, Trebbe has camped alone in the Brooks Range, 200 miles above the Arctic Circle; written a speech for Russian cosmonauts to broadcast to the U.N. from Mir on Earth Day; and fasted in the Sahara Desert. She lives with her husband, Andrew Gardner, a potter and rustic furniture maker, in rural northeastern Pennsylvania.