Rachael Petersen

Annie Dillard (b. 1945) is an influential American writer, best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), a genre-defying blend of memoir, natural history, and theology. While often called a “nature writer,” Dillard herself...

Monica Gagliano (b. 1974) is an Italian-Australian evolutionary ecologist whose pioneering research explores plant behavior, cognition, and communication. Trained in marine ecology, Gagliano is best known for experimental studies demonstrating that plants...