Nonfiction writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger, and Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Jenny Price, will give a reading as part of the Working Writers Series. 

Price has written often about the environment, Los Angeles, and environmentalism, and about gun control, the Malibu beach wars, and public space.  Author of 'Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.' and 'Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America,' she's written also for GOOD, Sunset, Believer, Audubon, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and writes “Green Me Up, JJ” a not-quite advice column for L.A. Observed. With the Urban Rangers art collective, she has conducted such projects as Downtown L.A. Trail System and Public Access 101: Malibu Public Beaches; has led workshops in the U.S. and abroad; and has been a resident artist at the Orange County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. She gives frequent tours of the concrete Los Angeles River, to emphasize its central importance to L.A.'s past, present, and future. 

Price has taught at UCLA, USC, and Antioch-Los Angeles; has been a Guggenheim fellow and two-time NEH fellow; and was the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University in fall 2011. She has an A.B. from Princeton--where as a biology major she studied the white-winged trumpeters of the Amazon rain forest--and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, where she studied the plastic pink flamingos of the American grasslands.

She is currently working on a new book, 'Stop Saving the Planet! - & Other Tips for 21^st century Environmentalists.'