Susan Brind Morrow has written extensively on the origins of written language in metaphor drawn from the natural world. She received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 2022. She is the author of Water: Poems and Drawings, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World, and The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking Pyramid Texts. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Nation, The Seneca Review, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Morrow is currently at work on a book on the religious meaning of darkness for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Morrow is a former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and was an ICWA fellow in Egypt and Sudan from 1988-1990.