About the Author

Michael Kolster is a professor of art at Bowdoin College and a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography. His photographs have been exhibited widely and are in numerous collections, including the American University of Paris, Brown University, Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman House of Film and Photography, High Museum of Art, Huntington Library, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and Williams College Museum of Art. His previous books are Take Me to the River: Photographs of Atlantic Rivers (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2016) and L.A. River (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2019).

About the Contributor

Michelle Kuo is a writer, attorney, and currently an associate professor in the History, Law, and Society program at the American University of Paris. She is the author of Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship (Random House, 2017), which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Prize and Goddard Riverside Stephen Russo Bok Prize. She has also published individual pieces in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Point, and Public Books, among others.