Amy D. Propen

Amy D. Propen, Ph.D., is faculty in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses in professional writing, including Writing About Sustainability, Multimedia Writing, and Creative Nonfiction. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota. She also holds a master’s degree in Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Much of her writing and research combine ideas about the human-animal connection with environmental storytelling and narrative nonfiction. Her recent books include An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors: Conservation, Compassion, and Connectivity (2024); At Home in the Anthropocene (2022); and Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene (2018).