To our delight, Aimee Nezhukumatathil has agreed to come as a featured author for our 10th Anniversary celebration of the Kansas Book Festival on September 18, 2021 at the Washburn University campus. Aimee’s new collection of nature essays, World of Wonders, has been selected by Barnes and Noble and National Public Radio as a Book of the Year. Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe, has this to say of World of Wonders: “These are the praise songs of a poet working brilliantly in prose. Each essay compresses a great deal of art and truth into a small space, whether about fireflies or flamingos, monkeys or monsoons, childhood or motherhood, or the trials and triumphs of living with a brown skin in a dominant white world.” A reviewer for the New York Times adds this: “We are losing the language and the ability to see and understand the wondrous things around us. And our lives are impoverished . . . This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. It is a very fine book indeed.”