How to Plant a Billion Trees

The author of the classic 2022 New York Times essay, "My Abortion at 11 Wasn't a Choice. It Was My Life," offers an urgent ecological message and a blueprint for emotional and community resilience - a must-read for anyone invested in both personal and planetary healing.

About the author

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019). She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story (2019) with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013) with Margot Singer. She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Ploughshares, among other places. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and serves as the Crux Series Editor for University of Georgia Press.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Walker
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9798216278870
• ISBN: 979-8-216-27887-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, Memoirs, Mind, Body, Spirit, Conservation of the environment, PSYCHOLOGY / Trauma Psychology