Kelpie Wilson is a freelance writer covering energy and environmental issues. She is a contributing editor for Yoga Plus magazine and author of Primal Tears, a novel.

From 2004 until 2008, Kelpie was the environment editor and columnist for Truthout.org.

Her articles and essays have been published by Orion-online, Yoga Plus, Permaculture Activist, La Stampa (Italian translation), Sun Monthly, Haleakala Times, AlterNet, Energybulletin.net, Tidepool, Wild Earth, High Country News, The Progressive, Hope Dance and Sentient Times.

In 2006 she produced a video report on anti-environmental congressman Richard Pombo for Free Speech TV.

She has been interviewed on various radio programs and podcasts in the past several years. In 1999, she was interviewed as part of the New Dimensions Radio Deep Ecology series and was profiled in 2000 as a diarist in Grist Magazine.

Kelpie has had a varied career in engineering and environmental politics, beginning as a political science major at the University of Illinois in Urbana. After training and working as an auto mechanic in Austin, Texas, she moved to California and graduated with honors from CSU, Chico in 1987 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

She worked for a small R&D firm designing Stirling cycle cryocoolers on a Department of Defense contract, but was soon called to join up with Earth First! She was a key organizer of the Earth First! Exxon Valdez campaign in Alaska (1989) and of the Redwood Summer campaign in California (1990).

From 1991 to 2003 she worked for the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots forest protection group, serving as executive director from 1997-2001.

From 2004-2005 she worked as a technical writer in the solar photovoltaic industry.

She published her first novel, Primal Tears, in 2005.

Kelpie lives with her husband in a solar-powered home in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon.