About

Dana Graef is an environmental anthropologist and creative writer. She has held interdisciplinary fellowships at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and Brown University. She has also written a column that features anthropological perspectives on climate change for the online magazine, SAPIENS. Graef holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology & Environmental Studies from Yale University, and an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. She has designed and taught courses in environmental and social justice, the anthropology of climate change, and what it means to be green. Her creative writing has been published in Rust + Moth (poetry), California Quarterly (poetry), and Split Rock Review (creative non-fiction). She was recognized with a notable mention in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. She can be reached at danagraef [at] gmail.com.