Tara Duggan

A staff writer at the The San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, Tara covers the environment and climate through the lens of agriculture, food and the ocean. Previously part of the Food+Wine department, where she earned a James Beard Foundation award, she is the author of five cookbooks. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on Farallones, a historical and environmental novel set on the desolate Southeast Farallon Island in 1860, where a community of lighthouse keepers living in isolation are pulled into a real battle over a precious commodity in Gold Rush-era San Francisco: seabird eggs.