Geetha Iyer writes fiction, nonfiction, and the occasional poem or comic, usually about people or places in a state of ecological or social flux. Her work is featured in Orion, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Story, Split Lip, The Forge, and National Geographic. Her writing has received the O. Henry Award, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Calvino Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, and the Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction at ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. She was the 2020-2023 Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. She received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University in 2014. She was born in India, raised in the United Arab Emirates, and calls Panama a waystation home.