Ben Goldfarb is an award-winning environmental journalist who covers wildlife conservation, marine science, and public lands management, as well as an accomplished fiction writer. He is the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times, and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His nonfiction writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The Guardian, High Country News, Outside Magazine, Smithsonian, bioGraphic, Pacific Standard, Audubon Magazine, Scientific American, Vox, OnEarth, Yale Environment 360, Grantland, The Nation, Hakai Magazine, VICE News, and other publications. His fiction has appeared in publications including Motherboard, Moss, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Hopper, which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. His nonfiction has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing and Cosmic Outlaws: Coming of Age at the End of Nature. He holds a master of environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and was a 2018 North American Congress for Conservation Biology journalist fellow. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Elise, and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.