Brendon Larson’s book of creative non-fiction, The Naturalist’s Paradox: How Our Love for Nature May Harm It, will be published in April 2027 (McGill-Queen’s U. Press). His prior non-fiction book, Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability: Redefining Our Relationship with Nature (Yale U. Press, 2011), won the Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication. Larson has degrees in biology and social science and he’s a professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. A keen communicator, he's written numerous op-eds, given lectures and keynotes to thousands of people around the world, and held numerous leadership positions. When he’s not researching or teaching, he’s probably playing a sport or exploring the natural world near Guelph.
