Allison Carruth is on the faculty of Princeton University, where she directs the environmental research, storytelling and art group Blue Lab and the lab's ongoing Climate Stories Incubator. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food and was the inaugural director of the UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Her research interests include environmental narrative, media and art; science communication; contemporary food movements; and evolving relationships between technology, ecology and environmentalism in American culture.