Nathaniel Rich is the author of Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade and Losing Earth: A Recent History, He is a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Award, and a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physics. He is also the author of the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue. Rich’s short fiction has been published by McSweeney’s, Esquire, Vice, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The American Scholar; he was awarded the 2017 Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction and is a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction.