Anna Farro Henderson is a PhD climate scientist who worked as an advisor in the U.S. Senate and to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton. Her book, “Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood,” came out with University of Minnesota Press in October 2024. Her publications have appeared in River Teeth, The Kenyon Review, and The Normal School, among others (she previously published as E.A. Farro). She has been a recipient of Minnesota State Art Board grants, an Everwood Farmstead residency, and the Terrain.org’s 2023 fiction contest, among others. She teaches at The Loft Literary Center. She is online at www.annafarrohenderson.com.