Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones, High Country News, O-Oprah, W., Bicycling, and numerous other publications. A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health, and science. Her first book, BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology and the 2013 Audie in General Nonfiction. It was also named a notable book of 2012 by New York Times. While at the Mesa Refuge, she worked on her newest book, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, that examines the environment’s influence on our brains, specifically how nature’s green spaces influence our attention networks and nervous systems.