Ben Goldfarb

Biography

Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has been featured in National Geographic, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other publications. His most recent book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Norton, 2023), was named a Notable Book of 2023 by The New York Times and received the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing and the Banff Book Competition’s Grand Prize. His previous book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Chelsea Green, 2019), won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

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