Monique “Mo” Fair

Executive Director of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership, a nonprofit organization supporting an urban trail and riparian habitat in metro Denver, Colorado.

For the Summer 2024 issue, Mo recommended These Olive Trees, Aya Ghanameh (author/illustrator), Viking Books for Young Readers, 2023, 40 pages.

For the Winter 2023-2024 issue, Mo recommended Mayah’s Lot (Environmental Justice Chronicles: Book 1), Charlie LaGreca and Rebecca Bratspies (authors), Charlie LaGreca (art), SUNY School of Law Center for Urban Environmental Reform, 2015, 24 pages.

For the Autumn 2023 issue, Mo recommended The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, Kirk Wallace Johnson, Viking (Hardback) 2018, 320 pages.

For the Summer 2023 issue, Mo recommended The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, Alison H. Deming and Lauret Savoy (editors), Milkweed Editions, 2011, 368 pages.

For the Spring 2023 issue, Mo recommended Mississippi Solo: A River Quest, Eddy L. Harris, Holt Paperbacks (Reprint Edition), 1998, 256 pages; and interviewed the author.

For the Winter 2022-2023 issue, Mo recommended Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Camille T. Dungy, ed., University of Georgia Press, 2009, 432 pages.

For the Autumn 2022 issue, Mo recommended As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, 2017, University of Minnesota Press, 320 pages.