Maya Khosla is the Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (2018-2020). A wildlife biologist and writer, her work takes her to wilderness areas, to the page and to the screen. She has documented forests, fire scientists and firefighters talking about ways to be wise about wildfire. Maya’s work has taken her across coastal India, Kenya, and the United States. Her first book of poetry, Keel Bone, won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. She is also author of the chapbook, Heart of the Tearing and the collection All the Fires of Wind and Light. A field-based biologist and a writer, Maya’s concerns for the natural world have led her through the wild, to the page, and to the screen. Her acclaimed first film Searching for the Gold Spot is about the wilds of the American West after wildfire.