Animals Strike Curious Poses - Paperback

by Elena Passarello (Author)

"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud."
--Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Author Biography

Elena Passarello
is an essayist, teacher, and performer whose work has appeared in National
Geographic, Paris Review, Audubon, the New York
Times, and Best American Science and Nature Writing. In
2019, Outside named Elena one of "25 Essential Women Authors
Writing About the Wild." A recipient of the Whiting Award in nonfiction and the
Oregon Book Award, her writing has been translated into five languages. She
teaches in the MFA program at Oregon State University, and can be heard weekly
on PRX arts and culture radio show Live Wire!