Her writing on art, literature, and the environment has appeared in O, the Oprah magazine, Slate, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The LA Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other places. She’s won awards from the National Science Foundation and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, and is a recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and lives in the New York City area.