Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising:  Unsettling the American Shore (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar (Global Directions, 2014.) She teaches creative nonfiction courses that integrate both environmental studies and digital pedagogy into the humanities classroom at Brown University. Her work has appeared in Harpers, Granta, Creative Nonfiction, Orion, Guernica, Le Monde Diplomatique and others. Rush is also the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project, the Society for Environmental Journalism, the National Society of Science Writers and the Metcalf Institute. In 2016, she was awarded the Howard Foundation Fellowship in creative nonfiction.