Lecturers at the Jefferson Educational Society

Kim Todd

Award-winning science and environmental writer Kim Todd is the author of Sparrow, a natural and cultural history of a loved and reviled bird; Chrysalis, Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis; and Tinkering with Eden, a Natural History of Exotic Species in America. Her work has appeared in Orion, Sierra, and River Teeth, among other places, and is forthcoming in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015. She lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches literary nonfiction in the University of Minnesota's MFA program.