Melanie Challenger

Poet Melanie Challenger's nonfiction debut is On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature. From her Q & A with Bridget Potter at Publishers Weekly: How did you come to believe that we have become "estranged from nature"? I had a clamoring love of nature, but when I immersed myself in the natural world, I realized how much of my life and knowledge was derived solely from the manufactured