NICOLE WALKER is the author of How to Plant a Billion Trees: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and the Healing Power of Nature (Bloomsbury 2026) Writing the Hard Stuff: Turning Difficult Subjects into Meaningful Prose (Bloomsbury 2025) Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (Torrey House Press 2021) The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (Rose Metal Press 2019) Sustainability: A Love Story (Mad Creek Books/OSU Press 2019) Where the Tiny Things Are (Punctum Press 2017), Egg (Bloomsbury 2017) Microgram (New Michigan Press 2016), and Quench Your Thirst with Salt (Zone 3 Press 2013). Barrow Street Press published her poetry collection, This Noisy Egg in 2013. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentiss (2021) and with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (Bloomsbury 2013) 1st edition, 2nd edition (2023). She has written essays for The New York Times and is a noted author in several editions of Best American Essays. She edits the Crux series at University of Georgia press and nonfiction at Diagram and teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University and serves as Writer-in-Residence for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society.
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