Rosanna Xia in conversation with Christina Gerhardt, discussing California Against the Sea at Book Passage in Corte Madera.

51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Christina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She is the author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, published by the University of California Press, named one of the “Best Popular Science Books of 2023” by the New Scientist.