REVOLUTION: AN OVERTHROW, transformation, a shift in direction in favor of a new system. To revolt, revolve, evolve. To undo and be undone.
Christie Green’s award-winning work inspires people-place connection.
MOONLIGHT ELK
One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom
Moonlight Elk is Christie Green’s memoir of transformation, regeneration and belonging. Longing for a life deeper than weekly schedules and cultural norms, she learns to live among animals, shedding her domestic self and witnessing the animals as they defy reason, walking her into their world. The book was named a Finalist in the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards.
Moonlight Elk tracks the electric presence of a hunter who 'burn(s) for belonging' in the land and among the animals...This book will re-map your heart.
—Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
Moonlight Elk’s courageous, pro-woman prose unfolds in the crucible of the natural world.
—Holly Morris, director of Exposure and author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
Moonlight Elk is a riveting meditation on sustenance and love—in food, in nature, in family. Christie Green’s personal journey is woven with natural history and questions about what it means to be a human animal in the more-than-human world. This book is beautiful, deeply felt, and wise.”
—Ramona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal
“I am a woman who hunts alone most of the time now.
I carry no one else’s weight.
I am. Without reason.”
“As she gains confidence to hunt alone as a woman, Green closely tracks the boundary between human and animal, moving ever closer to a place of elemental exchange; in the end she discovers that there is no other.”—Gretchen Legler, author of Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life”
“Moonlight Elk is a brave unveiling that takes us to the intersection of what we know and what we sense in a given place with lyrical curiosity. A daring and revealing book.”
“Green has the mind of a scientist and the heart of a poet. Her passion for the creatures she encounters and the land she wanders shines through every word.”