Eric Dean Wilson is a writer and educator in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in Tin House, Heavy Feather Review, DrDOCTOR, Music & Literature, Seneca Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He's currently finishing a book that investigates climate change, hope, dread, and legacy through a material history of the chemical that caused the ozone layer crisis—Freon—and a present-day road trip in search of its dangerous remnants throughout the American heartland (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming). He teaches undergraduate writing and is currently a doctoral student in the English Department, where his focus is American Studies and the Environmental Humanities.