Jordan Fisher Smith

Jordan Fisher Smith spent 21 years as a park and wilderness ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. His nonfiction book, ENGINEERING EDEN won a 2017 California Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. The Wall Street Journal calls it "an intensely reported, rousingly readable and ambitiously envisioned book."

Jordan's previous book, NATURE NOIR, is a memoir of his surprisingly strange and dangerous work as a park ranger. NATURE NOIR was a Booksense Bestseller, an Audubon magazine Editor’s Choice, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2005 pick.

Jordan has written for The New Yorker, TIME.com, Men’s Journal, Aeon, Discover, and Orion. He appeared in and narrated a documentary film

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