Both Michelle and Laura’s books speak to the urgency of this moment and the hope that the natural world and our relationship can provide. So as we begin Earth Month, with as much pressing need and reason to keep hoping.
Michelle Otero is the author of Malinche’s Daughter, an essay collection based on her work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Oaxaca, Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow, and Bosque: Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), a collection written during her tenure as Albuquerque Poet Laureate. Her memoir, Vessels is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. She is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop
Laura Paskus is a longtime environmental reporter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Currently, she is the environment reporter for New Mexico PBS, and produces the monthly series, Our Land: New Mexicos Environmental Past, Present and Future. Her book At the Precipice: New Mexicos Changing Climate, was published in September 2020 by the University of New Mexico Press.
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