Kate Schapira is a writer and teacher with over eight years of experience listening to people talk about climate change. Since 2014, she's staffed the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth, mainly in Providence, RI, where she's lived for 20 years and is involved with local efforts toward environmental justice, climate justice and peer mental health support. She teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and leads guest workshops on building climate and community emotional intelligence, and turning climate anxiety into connection and action. These workshops form the backbone of a book called Next Morning on Earth, forthcoming in 2024 with Hachette Go. She's also the author of six full-length books of poetry, most recently Handbook for Hands that Alter as we Hold Them Out (Horse Less Press) and her prose has appeared with Catapult, The Rumpus, The Toast, and Human x Nature, and as a chapbook with Essay Press, Time to Be Something Other Than Human.