Kathleen Yale spent more than 10 years chasing critters through the Rocky Mountains as a wildlife field biologist and holds degrees in conservation biology and environmental studies. She has served as Orion magazine’s Reviews editor and has authored text for a number of nature-related books and games for adults and children, including Mountain Goats of Glacier National Park, North American Birds, Backyard Birds, and Baby Animals of the World. Her essays, poems, and reviews have been published in various places including Orion, High Country News, Camas, Big Sky Journal, and High Desert Journal.  She recently spent several years researching and writing creative and humorous scripts for the popular, award-winning educational YouTube channels SciShow and Crash Course. Yale currently lives with her family in Montana, just outside of Glacier National Park, where she works as a freelance writer and editor.