Gretchen Ernster Henderson writes across environmental genres, intermedia arts, and poetics of place. Her fifth book, Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea (Trinity University Press 2023), has melted across exhibitions, performances, and field practices. Her writings have appeared in Arnoldia: The Nature of Trees, Ecotone, Orion, Landscape Architecture Plus/LA+, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals, also translated across five languages. Gretchen is the Spence L. Wilson Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Georgetown, University of Utah, and MIT. She also teaches eco-workshops across geographies and Seed Retreats. She is the founder of the Dear Body of Water project with the University of Arizona Poetry Center and, in 2025-2026, is the Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellow at Harvard University, with a solo exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University. Born and raised in San Francisco near the Pacific Ocean, she shares her time between the Mississippi River Watershed and the Sonoran Desert, attuning to water as home. More at gretchenhenderson.com.