ELI J. KNAPP is the author of In the Crosswinds: Birds, Humans, and the Paradox of Place, The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: Sharing Nature with the Next Generation and Dead Serious: Wild Hope Amid the Sixth Extinction, a 2022 Foreword INDIE medalist. He holds a Masters in environmental science from the University of Santa Barbara and a PhD in ecology from Colorado State University, and is a professor of ecology at Houghton College. Knapp lives in Fillmore, New York, with his wife and children.