Andrea Peacock has covered Western politics and conservation issues for more than two decades, for publications including Mother Jones, High Country News, the Denver Westword and Austin Chronicle. She writes frequently for Counterpunch.org, and is the former editor of the Missoula Independent. She was the recipient of a 2010 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship for her work on the ways oil and gas development affects communities in the Rocky Mountain West. Her books include Wasting Libby: How the W.R. Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die (And Got Away With It) (AK Press, 2010), and The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears (The Lyons Press, 2006). She runs a used bookstore with her cousin, poet Marc Beaudin, in Livingston, Montana, and lives near Emigrant, Montana, with her husband, author Doug Peacock.