Lauren Redniss, New Arizona Fellow, is the author of several works of visual non-fiction and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Her book Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent book is Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West which the New York Times called "virtuosic." She has been a Guggenheim fellow and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
