Priyanka Kumar is a nationally-acclaimed naturalist and the author of Conversations with Birds, praised as “a landmark book” that “could help people around the world rewild their hearts and souls” (Psychology Today). She profoundly re-envisions our place in Nature—and Nature’s place in our hearts—and has been compared to Rachel Carson. A documentary inspired by Conversations with Birds, and produced by an Emmy-award-winning team, is forthcoming.
Kumar’s newest work The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit has been called “environmental writing at its best” (Joan Strassmann) and “an urgent message about maintaining biodiversity during a time of ecological tumult” (Foreword Reviews). Kumar’s essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Orion, and Sierra magazine, and she has been featured on CBS, Oprah Daily, Yale Climate Connections, and NPR's Living on Earth.
Awards: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science Writing Award, John Burroughs Medal finalist, New Mexico/New Visions Governor's Award, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies Fellow, CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist, Aldo & Estella Leopold Fellow
Communities: Asian American
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