Melanie Challenger

MELANIE CHALLENGER publishes and presents ideas that bring together environmental philosophy, bioethics, and natural history. She is the author of How to Be Animal and Galatea, an award-winning first collection of poems, and is co-author, with Zlata Filipovic, of Stolen Voices, a history of twentieth-century conflict compiled through war diaries. She has received a Darwin Now Award for her research in the Canadian Arctic and the Arts Council International Fellowship with British Antarctic Survey for her work on the history of whaling.

She is the author of: On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature