Christine Colasurdo 1961 - 2021 - There Is Always a Volcano Before You, Poems for Mt St Helens and the Cascade Range

Selected Works

POETRY

There Is Always a Volcano Before You, Poems for Mt St Helens and the Cascade Range

Published posthumously, this book is available in November 2025. It features poetry Christine wrote over many years of hiking, researching, and volunteering at Mt. St. Helens, an active Cascade Range volcano that erupted in 1980. Come experience the places Christine loved before and after the eruption through her detailed and descriptive language.

RAIN: A Song Cycle

A book-length celebration of rain that will make you want to lift your face to the sky, even in a good downpour.

Nonfiction

Return to Spirit Lake

“superb popular science . . . This is engaging writing, full of human warmth.” –KLIATT

Golden Gate National Parks: A Photographic Journey

A massive coastal landscape is captured in one concise book.

Cascade Manifesto

A poem that celebrates the entire Cascade Range. Followed by a selected bibliography of Christine’s prose.

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