Our first retreat is coming soon: February 22, 2025 in Columbia Missouri. We’re thrilled to have Tina Casagrand Foss, founder and publisher of The New Territory magazine, talk PLACEWRITING. We will have a morning refreshments, writing talks and writing time, then we’ll lunch.
More about our speaker: Tina Casagrand Foss
Tina Casagrand Foss is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of The New Territory. Raised in the Gasconade River Valley of the northern Ozark border, her love for mossy woods knows no bounds. She graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in magazine journalism and anthropology and worked as a freelance environmental journalist before starting The New Territory. As executive director of The New Territory Magazine nonprofit, she looks forward to a long future of reaching more readers, fostering Midwestern writers and editors, and nurturing connections among New Territory readers both on and off the page. In the summers, she teaches classes in Missouri ecology, nature writing and print media at the Missouri Scholars Academy. Tina is also the host of River Town, a podcast about the Missouri River and how it shapes the people and places it flows through. She lives in Jefferson City, Missouri, with her husband, stepdaughters and giant dog.
