Maria Pinto is a Boston-area naturalist, educator, and author of fiction and nonfiction. She leads regular fungal forays at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and has given lectures and led workshops for mycological clubs and environmental organizations around the country. Her writing has appeared in Science, Orion, Necessary fiction, and Obsidian, among other publications. Her book of lyric essays inspired by fungi, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, is a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, and was the recipient of the Don Kissel Prize for Nonfiction.
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