Welcome! I would love for you to join me on my journey as I go on tour for Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood 2024 Foreword INDIES Winner and a 2025 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature Finalist.
Core Samples illustrates how nature and communication have inseparable components of both art and science.
— Science, full review here
A lively and accessible narrative about finding a balance between convictions and love.
— Kirkus Review, full review here
Anna Farro Henderson’s deep encounters with Big Science and Big Bureaucracy will help you understand why progress on matters of life and death can be so maddeningly slow; her encounters with herself may help you figure out how to live your own life.
— Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Some books are so good I want to shout about them to the rooftops. Core Samples, the new collection by Anna Farro Henderson, is one of those shout-able titles.
— Dayton Daily News, full review here
Anna Farro Henderson’s Core Samples ought to be required reading for anyone interested in a career in the sciences.
— Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
With fierce intelligence and wild exuberance, Anna Farro Henderson throws herself headlong into the biggest challenge of our time: how to love fully, create abundantly, and stop the ruin of the precious ecosystems that sustain us.
— Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers
“In putting names and faces to solastalgia and climate dread, she stamps all our faces on the shifting terrain.”
— Jenna Brown, New Ohio Review, full review here
Henderson analyzes the material of her own life in attempt to determine how one ought to live in the age of climate change.
Climate scientist Anna Farro Henderson’s new book could not be more timely.
— Pioneer Press, full review here
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