Gretchen Ernster Henderson (MFA, PhD) is a multimedia writer and interdisciplinary educator who bridges environmental arts, cultural histories, integrative sciences, health and public humanities. Her fifth book, Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea (Trinity University Press 2023), has been seeping across publications, exhibitions, and field practices, including Ecotone (Notable Best American Essays), Orion, Ploughshares, LA+/Landscape Architecture Plus, Holt-Smithson Foundation, Unearthodox, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, along with co-authored publications including Nature Sustainability. She teaches across ecosystems including as a Senior Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin and previously taught on faculty at Georgetown University, MIT, and the University of Utah, where she was the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities. This past year, she was the Aldo & Estella Leopold Writer in Residence in New Mexico and Lucas Artist Program Fellow at Montalvo Arts in California. She lives seasonally in the Sonoran Desert and, with the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has been poetically water-harvesting Dear Body of Water: a collaborative project to cultivate care for watersheds globally.