is the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award and the John Burroughs Award for an outstanding published nature essay. She is the author of Deranged: Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan. Her work appears in Fourth Genre, Orion, OnEarth, and many other journals, and has been reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She lives in Scandinavia, Wisconsin.