Yelizaveta P. Renfro is also the author of the award-winning book of linked short stories A Catalogue of Everything in the World. She lives in Connecticut.

“In these profound and moving essays, Yelizaveta Renfro applies a scientist’s eye for detail and a reporter’s investigative prowess to the essential questions of our nature, human and otherwise. Her personal and botanical inquiries into the themes of growth, death, and time evoke Annie Dillard and Edward Abbey.”— Justin St. Germain, author Son of a Gun: A Memoir“A book of raw power and unflinching wisdom, the kind that cannot be relegated to any particular time or period but which seems to speak out of eternity itself. Like Annie Dillard’s For the Time Being, it dares to look without blinking at humanity’s peculiar and brief place on this earth, and does so with integrity and poetical insight.”— Robert Vivian, author of The Least Cricket of Evening