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8 Questions for... Kendall Lamb

Touching the Elephant

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May 13, 2025
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Kendall Lamb is a marine ecologist, an evolutionary biologist, a mother, a housekeeper and a mystic- which means she is great at identifying whales by the shape of their spout, making perfect crustless grilled cheese sandwiches, and folding fitted sheets, all while thinking about what it is we’re doing here. She has yet to publis…

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Nature writer, memoirist, mother and poet. A former whale biologist now living in a beautiful mountain valley, dreaming of the sea with my feet in the river and my pen on the page.
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