Laura Trethewey is an ocean journalist and the author of The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea (Goose Lane Editions) and The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans (Goose Lane Editions). Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Guardian, Smithsonian magazine, Courrier international, The Walrus, Hakai magazine, and Canadian Geographic. She’s the former writer and editor for the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada. She received a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. In 2020, she won Canada’s Writers’ Trust Rising Star Award.