Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, teacher, contributing editor at Orion magazine, associate of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, and the author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction. Mill Town was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Tory Stephens is the Lecture Climate Fiction Creative Manager and Network Weaver at Fix. Fix combines creative storytelling with network-building and events. Grist launched Fix in 2016.