Anya Groner’s award-winning writing explores the changing environment’s impact on community and equity in the US South. Her journalism and essays are featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Oxford American, Orion Magazine and The Atlantic. Audio reporting and production can be heard on Monument Lab’s podcast Plot of Land, Gravy Podcast, and WWNO/WRKF’s Sea Change podcast. Her fiction can be read in literary journals such Meridian, Carolina Quarterly, and Ninth Letter. Recent projects aim to illuminate historic moments that might otherwise feel unrecognizable to contemporary readers. She’s taught storytelling in high schools, colleges, and professional settings, including public health conferences and to immigration lawyers, and encourages students to pursue their curiosity wherever it may take them. She currently lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia and works as a teacher and freelance journalist.