@ayanaeliza

class="content__text" PUBLICATION DAY! 📚 Best American Science & Nature Writing of 2022 — as selected by me! So, yes, it’s the most diverse, femme, and melanated edition of this collection yet. It’s nerdy *and* cool. 🤓😎 Pick up a copy at your fave local independent bookstore. ✨ Shoutout to my neighborhood @greenlightbklyn — find a signed copies there! 📝 (And a signed copy of @allwecansave too!) Or via @bookshop_org, at link in bio. Re-posting my earlier description: I am thrilled with how this collection came together, arcing from observations to actions, from slime and giraffes 🦒 to climate solutions and nature restoration. I organized the anthology into 5 sections: - Nature is Magnificent - Nature is Roiled - Humans Are a Part of Nature - Ways of Knowing - Futures We Could Have The book is filled with glorious pieces by writers who are diverse across race, geography, age, areas of expertise, and writing styles. To counter the bias toward choosing pieces by more established journalists who publish in big name outlets, I read hundreds of pieces and dug far beyond what was nominated in order to select the 33 pieces that are included. I wrote an introduction that details my attempt to create an inclusive selection process and parses my own biases (e.g., toward ecology and planet Earth). There is so much magnificent and fascinating and compelling writing — it was extremely hard to choose! Thank you @harpercollins for entrusting me with this project.

November 16, 2022