Gregg Kleiner is the author of the novel, Where River Turns to Sky (HarperCollins), which was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Oregon Book Award and was optioned for a feature film by Fox Searchlight. Please Don’t Paint Our Planet Pink!, his first book for kids, is about climate change and asks what might happen if we could see CO2 as pink? He has worked as a wildlife biologist, freelance journalist, dairy goat farmer, and lived for extended periods in Europe and Southeast Asia. He now resides in western Oregon. His writing has appeared in Orion, The Sun, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Whitefish Review, Terrain, Oregon Quarterly, and elsewhere.