Notes on the authors

FAZAL SHEIKH is an artist who uses photographs to document displaced peoples, disputed landscapes, and areas ravaged by industrial extraction and overuse. His most recent full-scale work is The Erasure Trilogy.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is a writer, conservationist, and activist. She is the author of many books, including Refuge, When Women Were Birds, and The Hour of Land. She is writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School.