Kim Todd

Background & Expertise

Kim Todd is a professor in the creative writing program and a fellow with the Institute on the Environment. She is author of four books of literary nonfiction, focusing on the forgotten stories about science, nature, and history that continue to influence our decisions. Her most recent book, “Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s 'Girl Stunt Reporters',” published by HarperCollins, goes deep into the lives of undercover journalists who exposed societal ills in the 1880s and 1890s and argues that their innovations shaped the journalism and creative nonfiction of today. Other books include “Sparrow”; “Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis”; and “Tinkering with Eden: a Natural History of Exotic Species in America”. Her work has been published in Smithsonian, Orion, Sierra, Ecotone, and Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. Her books have been selected as a Minnesota Book Award Finalist, a Richard Frisbee Nonfiction Award Honoree, the winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, and the winner of PEN/Jerard Fund Award.