ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephen E. Strom spent forty-five years as a distinguished research astronomer at Harvard University, SUNY Stony Brook, the University of Massachusetts, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). At the time of his retirement in 2007, he was Associate Director for Science at  NOAO (now NOIR Lab). In 1978, Strom also began to make fine-art photographs of the American West. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and is in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. For all of his books of photography, Strom has collaborated with distinguished poets, writers, scientists, and curators: Bears Ears: Views from a Sacred Land (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2018), Tidal Rhythms: Change and Resilience at the Edge of the Sea (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2016), Death Valley: Painted Light (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2016), Earth and Mars: A Reflection (Arizona, 2015), Sand Mirrors (Polytropos, 2012), Earth Forms (Dewi Lewis, 2009), Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grasslands (New Mexico, 2008), Sonoita Plain: Views from a Southwestern Grassland (Arizona, 2005), Tseyi / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly (Arizona, 2005), and Secrets from the Center of the World (Arizona, 1989).

ABOUT THE ESSAYIST

Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher, activist, and award-winning nature writer who for many years was a professor of environmental ethics at Oregon State University. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Audubon, Conservation Biology, Discover, High Country News, Orion, and The New York Times Magazine, among many others. She is the author and co-editor of numerous books about nature and climate ethics, including Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers (Oregon State University Press, 2022), Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case against Fracking and Climate Change (Oregon State University Press, 2021), Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World (Counterpoint, 2021), Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change (Counterpoint, 2016), and Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (Trinity University Press, 2011), which was co-edited by Michael Nelson and featured a foreword by Desmond Tutu.