J. Drew Lanham is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and poet. He is the author of Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts and The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, and his work has appeared in Audubon, Orion, Vanity Fair, Forest Ecology and Management, and the Oxford American. The recipient of a 2022 MacArthur fellowship, he is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University in South Carolina.