Amy Brady is the Deputy Publisher of Guernica magazine and the Editorial Director of the Chicago Review of Books, where she writes a monthly column on contemporary literature and climate change. Her writing has appeared in Oprahmagazine, The New Republic, Pacific Standard, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, Catapult, and several other places. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has won awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, the Center for Research Libraries, and various academic organizations. She is also the recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Library of Congress Research Fellowship.