Lauret Savoy

Lauret Savoy is a writer and professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke College. Her book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape examines how ideas of race have shaped the American landscape and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN American Open Book Award. She has also co-edited The Colors of Nature and Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology. She has written Terrain.org essays, including 'Letter to America' (2018).