Nature Obscura

A naturalist, writer, and artist based in Seattle, Kelly Brenner is the author of Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World, a finalist for the PNBA and Washington State book awards. Her writing has appeared in Popular Science, Crosscut, National Wildlife Magazine, and The Open Notebook among others. Brenner earned a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon and a certificate in nonfiction writing from the University of Washington. She shares her observations of the natural world, as well as folklore, books, and poetry, on metrofieldguide.com.