Novella Carpenter Biography

Novella Carpenter is an adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco teaching urban agriculture and writing in the university's College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Her follow-up book is The Essential Urban Farmer a how-to guide for a new generation of farmers. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town a run-down neighborhood about a mile from downtown Oakland California. In 2014 she released her memoir Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild which was selected as a Library Journal Best Book of 2014 and a Northern California Book Award Nominee for Best Creative Nonfiction of 2014. A child of back-to-the-land hippies Novella Carpenter grew up in the rural areas of Idaho and Washington State. A biology and English major she worked many odd jobs including assassin bug handler book editor media projectionist and most recently freelance journalist and memoirist.

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