Edwin Hagenstein

Edwin C. Hagenstein is a writer and editor with long experiences in publishing. He was the lead editor of American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land (Yale University Press, 2011), and author of The Language of Libery: A Citizen's Vocabulary (Rootstock Publishing, 2020), winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award. He has also published essays, generally on government, in online publications such as RealClear Public Affairs, The Front Porch Republic, and Minding the Campus. With an interest in woodworking, Hagenstein also wrote Craft in Common: 30 Years at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Crow Hill Press, 2023). He lives in northern New Mexico with the artist Helen Byers.