Women and the Land will be the theme of the next Geography of Hope conference, a literary gathering hosted by Point Reyes Books and designed to highlight the human relationship with wilderness. The event, held in March, will feature a dozen or more writers who use their craft to express a sense of urgency about the environment and a fierce compassion for the Earth. Most will be women, in accordance with a theme that stems in part from observations that previous conferences saw a prevalence of white men, said conference spokeswoman Elisabeth Ptak. (Past themes of the biannual event have included agriculture, water and the life and work of forester and conservationist Aldo Leopold.) “This year we wanted to make sure that there were more women,” Ms. Ptak said. “But of course men have a perspective on women and the land and we want to hear that as well.” The conference co-chairs are essayist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, and author and ecology professor Robin Wall Kimmerer. Both are award-winning authors on the human relationship with nature, and Ms. Kimmerer is a member of the Potawatomi tribe. Both have also been extremely involved in planning the conference. “We are listening particularly for voices that might offer useful perspectives,” Ms. Moore said about the upcoming event. “That means we want to listen closely to women. We want to listen to people of color and to the poor. We want to listen to future generations. And we want to listen closely to other voices that offer new directions, new compass points, new trails across new terrain.”