Susan Zakin

Susan Zakin is best-known as the author of Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! And the Environmental Movement. She has covered politics and the environment for national magazines. In 2001, a Senator John Heinz Fellow- ship for Environmental Writing took her to Madagascar. Her subsequent articles and essays on African politics and conservation are collected in 2017's Waiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. A novel, Libertyville, is...See more

Susan Zakin is best-known as the author of Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! And the Environmental Movement. She has covered politics and the environment for national magazines. In 2001, a Senator John Heinz Fellow- ship for Environmental Writing took her to Madagascar. Her subsequent articles and essays on African politics and conservation are collected in 2017's Waiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. A novel, Libertyville, is forthcoming in 2025. See less