Maria Pinto is an author and educator living in the Boston area. She teaches for the literary nonprofit GrubStreet, and her work has appeared or will appear in Orion magazine, Obsidian, Necessary Fiction, and Arnoldia, among other publications. She has led workshops and given lectures for mycological societies in New York, Texas, Wisconsin, and California, and she leads regular forays at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. She is the author of Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival.
