Laura Trethewey is an award-winning ocean and environmental journalist and author of The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories of a Changing Sea. Her writing has appeared in the The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Courrier International, The Guardian, The Walrus, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Hakai Magazine, and Canadian Geographic. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and won Canada's Writers' Trust Rising Star Award in 2020.