Kyle Paoletta is the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest.

Kyle has covered water scarcity and climate adaptation in feature reports for The New Republic, New York Magazine, and Sierra, charted broader shifts in the nation’s relationship to the environment for The New York Times, The Nation, and The Believer, and regularly writes about politics and the media world for Harper’s Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Baffler.

His first book, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest, is out now from Pantheon.