Ben Goldfarb is an independent conservation journalist and the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His next book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in September 2023, and has been supported by grants from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Whiting Foundation.