Sue Halpern is the author of seven previous books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently the novel Summer Hours at the Robbers Library. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, Rolling Stone, and Condé Nast Traveler, and she has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Today Show. A beloved college professor, and a former New Yorker staff writer, she lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben, and is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. https://suehalpern.com/
Rob Gurwitt has been a journalist for most of his working life, writing for Congressional Quarterly, Governing, Mother Jones, DoubleTake, Boston, and other publications about how communities grapple with change. After several years working for a local-news startup in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire, in 2019 he launched a weekday-morning newsletter with 25 subscribers to cover the Upper Valley, called Daybreak. It’s now got about 15,000 subscribers.
