From Harper Collins Publishers:

Trish O'Kane is a writer and educator specializing in environmental justice and climate change. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Vermont, where she teaches the course Birding to Change the World. Before studying the natural sciences, O’Kane worked as a human rights investigative journalist for a decade in Central America and five years in the Deep South. She has written for Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times. She lives in Burlington, Vermont, along with her husband, their dog, and three chickens.

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