About me
Maria Pinto is a naturalist, essayist, fictioneer, and educator living in the Boston area. She teaches creative writing for various organizations, has led workshops and given lectures for mycological societies and environmental groups around the country, and leads regular fungal forays at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Her book of lyric essays, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and is the recipient of St. Botolph Foundation’s Don Kissel Prize for Nonfiction.
