Ehrlich’s newest book In The Empire of Ice: Encounters In a Changing Landscape builds on the nearly two decades she has spent in the arctic and invites readers to understand this threatened environment and its indigenous people at the top of the world. According to The Seattle Times, “Ehrlich has accomplished an extraordinary feat: she has taken a forbiddingly beautiful, haunting and alien landscape and depicted it in equally beautiful and haunting prose.” She is an award-winning and widely published author of 13 books including three books of narrative essays, a novel, a memoir, three books of poetry, a biography, a book of ethnology/travel and a children’s book.

Ehrlich will discuss her experiences in the arctic as a part of The Center’s multidisciplinary project Thin Ice: Journeys In Polar Regions.