Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review , and Orion , where she is a contributing editor. Her first book was A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis , which was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera has received numerous grants and fellowships. She is a perpetual wanderer who can't stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds from her home base atop a glacial moraine on the Atlantic's western edge. Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, and New York Times -bestselling illustrator. Her books include the graphic novels A Better World Is Possible , co-written by Meera Subramanian; Long Way Down , written by Jason Reynolds; Slow Storm ; The Undertaking of Lily Chen ; Refresh Refresh ; the cookbook The Simple Art of Rice, with JJ Johnson; and the picture book Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist & Environmental Pioneer . In 2022, Danica was awarded the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, the UK's most prestigious award for children's book illustration.

She also received a 2025 South Arts grant, a 2024 Puffin Foundation grant, a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature, and a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in literature. She can be found at danicanovgorodoff.com.