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Eric Dean Wilson is the author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Simon & Schuster, 2021). Wilson’s writing has appeared in TIME, Esquire, Orion, Tin House, the Los Angeles Review of Books and BOMB, among other publications. He is currently working on a collection of essays about urban green space, queer ecology, and ecological mourning.

Wilson is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and American Literature at Wagner College, Staten Island. He earned his doctorate in English with a certificate in American Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY for his work on environmental literature. Previously, he taught climate-themed writing, creative writing, environmental literature, and environmental justice to undergraduates at Queens College, FIT, The New School, and Ramapo College of New Jersey. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School’s MFA program.

Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he now lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.