David Freese has spent the last sixteen years photographing North America's major waters, resulting in a trilogy of books: West Coast: Bering to Baja (2012), East Coast: Arctic to Tropic (2016), and Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf (2020), all published by George F. Thompson Publishing. His prints are in numerous collections, including the Center for Creative Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, and Library of Congress, and his photographs have appeared in Communication Arts, photo district news, Photo Insider, Polaroid International, Popular Photography, Smithsonian Air and Space, and View Camera magazines. www.davidfreesephoto.net

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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, a native of Reykjavik who studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris, is a well-known Icelandic novelist, playwright, and poet. Her six novels include Ör (Hotel Silence) (2016; English translation, 2018), which was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and Ungfrú Ísland (Miss Iceland) (2018).