Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. The author of six books to date, his writing has appeared in such venues as The American Scholar, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times. His most recent book, TREE, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. He is currently working on a cultural and natural history of memory and a novel about rewilding, ambition, and artificial intelligence. With a far-flung network of collaborators, he has created films, installations, and experiences from Boston to Berlin. In January 2022, he joined the staff of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, where he edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, a magazine exploring the urgency of tree-entangled science, history and storytelling for our time.