Kathleen M. Heideman is the author of "A Brief Report on the Human Animal" and "Psalms of the Early Anthropocene". A writer/artist/environmentalist working in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, she has completed residencies with the National Park Service, watersheds, research stations, private foundations, and the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists & Writers Program. Drawn to wild and threatened places, she works to defend them as a board member of the Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition. Heideman received the "Freshwater Heroes" award from Freshwater Future, and has a handful of Pushcart nominations - her other hand is full of moss. Curious woman.