Miranda Weiss is a science and nature writer in Homer, Alaska. She is the author of Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller. She writes about climate change, the natural world, and life in Alaska, and has traveled to the Arctic to explore snow pits, ventured to the Aleutians to investigate toxic algae, and tagged along with an intertidal octopus hunter. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and 1843 and been noted by the Best American Essays series.