Kathleen Dean Moore, Ph.D., is the award-winning author or co-editor of a dozen books. Her newest book is a novel, Piano Tide, winner of the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction.  For many years, Kathleen explored wet, wild places with creative nonfiction books such asRiverwalking, Holdfast, Pine Island Paradox, and Wild Comfort. But global warming and ecosystem collapse have deeply unsettled her, calling her to a new life of public speaking and advocacy, and her writing has become a passionate defense of the world that she has celebrated for so many years. Her 2016 book of essays, Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change, follows her pivotal anthology, Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, testimony from the world’s moral leaders about our obligations to the future. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and in a small cabin where two creeks and a bear trail meet a tidal cove in Alaska.