Hannah Kirshner is author and illustrator of Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town. Her reporting appears in publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and on The World radio program and podcast. She's currently working on an illustrated book about cooperative relationships with nature in Japan's satoyama landscapes, where the lines between cultivated and wild blur.
Satoyama: Ecological Wisdom from Japan's Half-Wild Landscapes