Hannah Nordhaus is author of The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America, published by Harper Perennial in May 2011. The book, which was a PEN Center USA and Colorado Book Award Finalist and a national bestseller, is a non-fiction portrait of an unusual fourth-generation beekeeper who travels the West with 10,000 beehives, making honey, pollinating crops, and struggling to keep his bees alive in the middle of a strange and sobering honey bee die-off.Hannah's writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Outside Magazine, Ski Magazine, High Country News, The Village Voice, and many other publications. From 2007 to 2009, she was also outdoors columnist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News.Her articles have covered litigious prostitutes in Montana; snorkeling salmon-counters in Idaho; the underground history of a dismantled nuclear weapons facility near Denver; wildlife crime investigators in Oregon; a personal history of New Mexico's San Juan Basin natural gas fields; and profiles of dildo-art thieves and dog-doo GPS-mappers in Boulder, Colorado.A historian by training, she has conducted extensive oral histories with employees of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C., with Cold-War era citizens of Roswell, New Mexico, and with federal judges and nuclear-plant workers in Colorado.She lives in Boulder with two children, one husband, and zero beehives.