Kea Krause’s work has appeared in The Believer, The Toast, VICE, Broadly, The Rumpus, Narratively and The Columbia Journal Online, has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 and The Best American Travel Writing 2016. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, where she was a Graduate Chair’s Fellow and taught undergraduate creative writing. She was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Kea can be found on Twitter @KeaMKrause