Adelheid Fischer

Adelheid Fischer is former co-director of InnovationSpace, a sustainable product-development program at Arizona State University. She also led ASU’s biomimicry initiative, introducing students to the use of biology as a means of sustainable innovation in design, business and engineering. As a writer, Fischer focuses on natural history, ecology and environmental history. Her poems, essays and articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Utne Reader, Orion, Conservation, Places, and Arizona Highways. She is the co-author of Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region, winner of a Minnesota Book Award for Nature Writing. With Minnesota ecologist Chel Anderson, she has co-authored North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast. In 2014, she received the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award.