Emily O'Gorman

Emily O’Gorman is an environmental historian and associate professor at Macquarie University. Her books include Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (2012) and the co-edited collections Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand (2014, with James Beattie and Matthew Henry) and Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History (2015, with Beattie and Edward Melillo). Wetlands in a Dry Land was first published in 2021 by University of Washington Press and is the Joint Winner of the AANZEHN Environmental History Book Prize 2023, a Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner, and a finalist for the 2023 ALSE Creative Writing Book Award.