Nicole Walker

Nicole Walker is the author of the forthcoming books, Writing the Hard Stuff and How to Plant a Billion Trees (Bloomsbury). Her other published works include: Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (Torrey House Press), The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (Rose Metal Press), and Sustainability: A Love Story (Mad Creek Books/OSU Press). Her previous nonfiction includes Where the Tiny Things Are (Punctum Press), Egg (Bloomsbury), Micrograms, and Quench Your Thirst with Salt (Zone 3 Press). Her poetry collection, This Noisy Egg, was published by Barrow Street Press. She edited two essay collections for Bloomsbury: Science of Story with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction with Margot Singer. She has written several essays for The New York Times and is a noted author in several editions of Best American Essays. She edits the Crux series at University of Georgia Press and nonfiction at Diagram and teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.