Education: B.A., Bennington College (1977)
M.A., Columbia University (1981)

Interests: Nature; the food system; altered states of consciousness

Selected Works:
The Botany of Desire (2001); The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006); In Defense of Food (2008); Cooked (2013); How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (2018); This is Your Mind on Plants (2021).