Life in the Tar Seeps
A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea
Raising awareness of fragile spaces without destroying them in the process Last book Ugliness: A Cultural History (2016), widely reviewed Environmental literature has exploded in recent years Little has been written on Great Salt Lake, great interest regionally and nationally There hasn’t been a signature book on Great Salt Lake since Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge. Great Salt Lake is often hiding in plain sight and is intimately tied to the water cycle of the American West and climate issues nationally and globally.
Audience: General trade, Environmental Studies, Creative Nonfiction/Lit/Essays, Environmental Studies, Creative nonfiction, Environmental Humanities, documentary studies/ land management
Gretchen Ernster Henderson writes across environmental arts, cultural histories, and integrative sciences. Her recent essays have appeared in Ecotone, Ploughshares, and the Kenyon Review, with co-authored articles in Nature Sustainability and Conservation Biology. Her four previous books include Ugliness: A Cultural History and Galerie de Difformité, cross-pollinating genres and arts and translated across five languages. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and has also taught at Georgetown University, MIT, and the University of Utah, where she was the 2018–19 Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities. Born and raised in California, she is the 2023 Aldo and Estella Leopold Writer in Residence in New Mexico and lives in Arizona.
