Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist, and playwright, whose most recent work is Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition (Counterpoint). He is the author of eight books, including The United States of Appalachia, State Out of the Union, and Reckoning at Eagle Creek, winner of the Delta Prize for Literature and David Brower Award for environmental reporting. His book, The Trials of a Scold, was long-listed for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. He is the founder of the Climate Narrative Project, an arts and advocacy initiative for schools and communities.