Jennifer price is a freelance writer and environmental historian, is the author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (1999). She has published in the anthologies Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature and The Nature of Nature: New Essays from America's Finest Writers on Nature, and in the L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, American Scholar, and New York Times. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and is currently living on Venice Beach and writing a new book about nature in Los Angeles.
She is a 2005-6 Guggenheim Fellow and a two-time NEH Fellow, and has been a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women since 1998. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University and currently lives in Venice Beach, California.