Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Sixth Extinction, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She’s a two-time National Magazine Award winner. Her work has also been honored with a National Academies Communication Award, the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Heinz Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Kolbert is a visiting fellow at Williams College’s Center for Environmental Studies. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.