Lorraine Boissoneault is the author of the award-winning book Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene. In it, she uses braided essays to explore her experience living with multiple autoimmune diseases alongside the ravages of climate change. She has written about history, science, the environment, human rights and disability for The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, Catapult, Lit Hub, Slate, The Nation, and others. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Society for Environmental Journalists, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.