John Linstrom is a scholar of American literature and the environmental humanities and a writer of creative nonfiction and poetry. He has taught engaged creative writing programs to Girl Scouts in upstate New York and to high schoolers at the Climate Museum, worked as an educator at the Museum of the City of New York, and was once the director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in his hometown of South Haven, Michigan. He edits a book series titled The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library for Cornell University Press and is the author of the poetry collection To Leave for Our Own Country.