About me

Leslie Carol Roberts is an author, journalist, research scholar, and professor who has traveled to every continent, taking photos and writing narratives of humans, more-than-humans, and ecologies. She is the author of  Here Is Where I Walk: Episodes from a Life in the Forest and The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica. She’s been on The Morning Show in New Zealand, Scratching the Surface Design Podcast, and in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun, The St. Petersburg Times, Fast Company, and The Believer, among others. She has given invited talks at the Stanford Linear Accelerator; Newaukee; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Ecopoiesis Conference, Moscow; Victoria University; Association for the Study of Landscapes and the Environment; Associated Writing Programs; Al Balad residency, Saudi Arabia; Litquake SF; Bay Area Book Fair; The National University of the Maldives, among others. In previous lives, she worked as a food journalist; an executive editor and magazine designer; business desk editor and reporter in Bangkok; and a shoe salesperson. She lives in the Bay Area, where she reared two sons. In 2018, Leslie went all-in on a lifelong passion — ecological thought, flat ontologies, and the wonder of the materiality of ecologies, founding the ECOPOESIS Project with two architects, Chris Falliers and Adam Marcus. Together we built a broad, international community of like-minded folks from across the planet. We installed How We Hear Now, our collaborative sound and writing installation reflecting on the pandemic, at the SF Ferry Building in 2021.