Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, contributing editor at Orion magazine, and the author of "Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains", which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction. Mill Town was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize. Her work has appeared in Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, the New York Times. She also has had 86 jobs. For 2022-2023, Kerri Arsenault will be the Warren Center American Democracy fellow at Harvard, and a Beckman Center fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

She has appeared in over 200 book-related events as subject, moderator, guest speaker, teacher, invited guest, and panelist; at countless literary festivals, libraries bookstores, book clubs, museums, radio shows, podcasts, TV, and universities (from grade school to grad school) and discussed in these venues such topics as anthropology, genealogy, architecture, sociology, narrative nonfiction writing and craft, political science, environmental studies and sciences, migration, environmental storytelling, history, identity, journalism, social justice, and toxics, wastes and pollutants.

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