Sparrow F. Alden is co-owner/builder of a straw bale cabin on Koasek Abenaki land in the New Hampshire woods. She explores ethics through rousing adventure stories and nature poetry. She teaches as an adjunct senior lecturer of English at River Valley Community College as well as a preceptor in Language and Literature at Signum University. As an independent scholar, Sparrow blogs with a digital humanities perspective on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Sparrow was interviewed in Spring ’25 for The Signum Scene’s Storyweb Podcast
Works in the Collaboratory:
- Relic World multi part fiction project
- A Flash of Wings flash fiction collection
- In the Subscription Library
- Morning Meanders: The Wheel of the Year poetry collection
- In the Subscription Library
- The Help Desk: Freshling Year fiction anthology
- In the Subscription Library
- The Collaborative Feedback Method and Toolkit academic project
- In the Subscription Library
- In the Signum Store for purchase and download
- The Old Guard: Sparrow Alden and Maggie Parke FanTracks
- In the Subscription Library
Other Things:
- Words That You Were Saying, Sparrow’s Tolkien blog
- Birch Island Books, Sparrow’s personal blog and web site with much poetry in
- Get her newsletter (puns, bullet points, and flash fic!)
- find her on The Story Graph
- and BlueSky
- and even enjoy her knitting patterns on Ravelry