Susan Zakin is the author of Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement, In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster (with Bill McKibben and Chris Jordan) and editor of the anthology Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth.

She has been called the “female environmental Hunter Thompson” for her trenchant, irreverent coverage of the environment, which has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, Salon, Sierra, Orion and Field and Stream.

Zakin recently finished a novel, The Afterlife of Victor Kamara.