Anna Monders

Anna Monders is an author and adventurer with a science background. After studying geology in college, Anna served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, melted knockoff Mars rocks in a laboratory in Massachusetts, led an off-the-grid homeschooling group in the Pacific Northwest, taught French to engineering students in Missouri, conducted biogeochemistry fieldwork in Alaska, and performed high-energy booktalks at schools across southern Oregon. She holds an MFA in writing for children from Simmons University and an MS in earth and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.