Timothy P. McLaughlin is a spoken word poet, an earth-based celebrant, and co-founder of the Praising Earth Center for Arts & Nature. He served many years in native education and founded an indigenous youth spoken word program that received international acclaim. He has created three collections of poetry: Rooted & Risen, Seeds Under the Tongue, and Her We Serve and has a longstanding devotion to weekly wanders in the wilderness where he finds his poems and stories. He is well known for his incantatory recitations that draw listeners in a deeply felt experience of the word. At Praising Earth, McLaughlin guides the Green Man programs and facilitates land regeneration projects. He lives with his family in the Rio en Medio valley of the Santa Fe mountains.