Nicole Walker is the author of the forthcoming books Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins (2019). She has previously published the books Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and This Noisy Egg (2010). She is currently editing for Bloomsbury the essay collection Science of Story and edited, with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and is a notable author in Best American Essays.