A staff writer at San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, Tara Duggan 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 New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, and 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.