Dan Flores is a Santa Fe, New Mexico, writer originally from Louisiana who spent much of his academic career at the University of Montana. The author of 11 books, he has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Time Magazine. Along with appearances on Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown on CNN and Joe Rogan’s podcasts, Flores was also featured in Ken Burns’s 2023 American Buffalo documentary. His most recent books are American Serengeti, winner of the Stubbendieck Distinguished Book Prize in 2017; Coyote America, winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Prize, Finalist for the 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and a New York Times bestseller; and Wild New World, winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Prize, winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, and Finalist for Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize.