Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. Her previous book, The Sixth Extinction, received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and has received a Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Academies communications award. Elizabeth is a visiting fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College.