ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David B. Williams is a freelance writer focused on the intersection of people and the natural world. He is the co-author, with Elizabeth Nesbitt, of Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State and author of Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound. His book Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography won the 2016 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, given by the Association of King County Historical Organizations to an outstanding historical publication. Other books include Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology and The Seattle Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from the City. Williams is also co-author of Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal and a contributor to The Boathouse: The Artist’s Studio of Dale Chihuly. He lives in Seattle and continues to explore and travel through the city by foot and by bike, which you can read about in his blog, Street Smart Naturalist: Explorations of the Urban Kind.