After beginning her career as a senior science writer for the University of California Natural Reserve System, Elaine Miller Bond went on to write and photograph independently. She is the photographer for The Utah Prairie Dog: Life Among the Red Rocks (University of Utah Press, 2014), and the writer-illustrator of Living Wild (Heyday, 2017), Running Wild (Heyday, 2016), Affimals: Affirmations + Animals (LIT Verlag, 2009) and Dream Affimals (Sunstone Press, 2013). Her work has appeared on the Discovery Channel Canada and been published by Science, NPR, BBC Earth News, The American Naturalist, The Washington Post, Journal of Mammalogy, Berkeleyside, and other scientific and popular media. She has a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and a master's degree from the University of Cambridge. Bond lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her website at www.elainemillerbond.com.