Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty-five books on feminism, western and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. Her books include the forthcoming The Beginning Comes After the End, Orwell’s Roses, Recollections of My Nonexistence;Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the Guardian and serves on the boards of the climate groups Oil Change International and Third Act. In 2025, she launched the newsletter MeditationsinanEmergency.com.
