Love and Other Fish

Hannah Hindley is a creative science writer and wilderness guide. Her essays have garnered multiple awards and have appeared in a number of publications, including Bay Nature, Grist, Terrain.org, and The Sun.

“In describing Love and Other Fish, I could use words like wonder, heartbreak, astonishment, clarity, rumination, and understanding. But what I really want to say is just read this book. With its beautiful narratives and contemplations, Love and Other Fish explores the strangeness of human experience and the strangeness of looking back. How wonderful and immersive to be guided by such a wise and generous writer.” - Beth Nguyen, author of Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir“Hannah Hindley is one of those rare writers whose generosity, knowledge, and lyricism take you on adventures of the heart and wilds while also making you feel right at home. Love and Other Fish swims among watery lives, including ours, with assurance, vulnerability, and wisdom. These essays are gorgeous.” - Christopher Cokinos, author of Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow“These astonishing essays braid grief, science, and love so tenderly that the world itself feels newly textured—each fish, each memory, each bright moment asking us to pay better attention to what keeps us alive. Love and Other Fish moves with a deep tenderness—an attention to the overlooked and the nearly forgotten—and in doing so, builds a world where memory, love, and survival can swim and splash beside each other.” - Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments“Science and the mysteries, the measurables, and the ineffables, the learned, and the felt are pulled together and arranged in this gorgeous collection, a musculature built of personal bravery and a sense of oneness with the natural world. A lyrical sensibility married to the precisions of scientific exploration—a profound combination of ways of being, thinking/feeling, and forging kinship with the wider world. I’m thrilled this book will be in the world, especially at a time when we need to be stunned back into love and care and other worlds.” - Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers: Essays“Love and Other Fish moves fluidly between taxonomy and personal vignette, stitching together a beautifully crafted piece collection that asks us who we are, who we’ve been, and how we are, ultimately, always plural animal selves. It’s a work that teaches and reaches for relation, asking readers to consider the pitfalls and possibilities of our gendered bodies.” - Julietta Singh, author of The Breaks: An Essay