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by Elena Passarello (Author)
"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud."
--Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review
Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
Author Biography
Elena Passarello
is an essayist, teacher, and performer whose work has appeared in National
Geographic, Paris Review, Audubon, the New York
Times, and Best American Science and Nature Writing. In
2019, Outside named Elena one of "25 Essential Women Authors
Writing About the Wild." A recipient of the Whiting Award in nonfiction and the
Oregon Book Award, her writing has been translated into five languages. She
teaches in the MFA program at Oregon State University, and can be heard weekly
on PRX arts and culture radio show Live Wire!
