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April 26-28, 2024

Word of South

Amy Brady

Amy Brady is the author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–a Cool History of a Hot Commodity. She is also the executive director of Orion magazine, a contributing editor to Scientific American, and coeditor of The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has made appearances on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. She holds a PhD in literature and American studies and has won writing and research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Library of Congress. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her spouse and two fickle cats.

Amy will be appearing with the author Alexandra Kleeman as part of a conversation on landscape, resilience and biodiversity hosted by the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group, moderated by the journalist C.D. Davidson-Hiers.