Andrea Peacock

Andrea is an author and journalist who has covered Western politics and environmental news for more than two decades. She has written two books, Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation, and The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears (co-authored with Doug Peacock). A former editor of the Missoula Independent, she has been published in Mother Jones, High Country News, and the Denver Westword, among others, and was former assistant politics editor at the Austin Chronicle. She received an Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her work on a project about the ways oil and gas development affects communities in the West. She is the co-owner of Elk River Books in Livingston, Montana.