Daniel Cooperrider
Daniel Cooperrider is a writer, teacher, and pastor in the United Church of Christ, with degrees from University of Chicago. His book, Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You (The Pilgrim Press 2022) was a 2023 Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award, joining a prestigious list of previous Nautilus Winners that includes Thich Nhat Hanh and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
About his book, The Christian Century observed: "Like Wendell Berry before him, Cooperrider understands the Bible as an outdoor book, open to the sky."