Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark. Her books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an out-of-the-way Place (1994) ; Frictions: An Ethnography of Global Connections (2005) ; The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015), and (with Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou) Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (2024). She is co-editor (with Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan and Heather Anne Swanson) of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet.