Meera Subramanian

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home, in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion. She is the author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, and A Better World is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis (forthcoming March 2026). She teaches creative nonfiction at Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera was previously a FRONTIERS Science Journalism fellow in residency at the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao, Spain; Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT; Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellow; board president of the Society of Environmental Journalists; and the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Meera is a perpetual wanderer who can't stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds from her home base atop a glacial moraine on the Atlantic's western edge.