Priyanka Kumar on KSFR Public Radio

Priyanka Kumar, a 2026 Santa Fe International Lit Fest Featured Author, will be discussing her books Conversations With Birds and The Light Between Apple Trees Thursday, November 27th at 5:30pm on KSFR Santa Fe Public Radio (101.1 fm locally, and everywhere at KSFR.org). Catch it live then or streaming the next day on KSFR.org.

You can listen to her previous interview on KSFR here: The Last Word

And For more about The Light Between Apple Trees, watch this video as Priyanka talks about the book and its inspiration: The Light Between Apple Trees

Priyanka Kumar is a nationally-acclaimed naturalist and the author of Conversations with Birds, praised as “a landmark book” that “could help people around the world rewild their hearts and souls” (Psychology Today). She profoundly reenvisions our place in Nature—and Nature’s place in our hearts—and has been compared to Rachel Carson. Kumar’s new book The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit has been praised as “environmental writing at its best” (Joan Strassmann). Kumar’s essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles

Review of Books, and Sierra magazine, and she has been featured on CBS, Oprah Daily, and Yale Climate Connections. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Kumar has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Leopold Writing Program. Her feature documentary, The Song of the Little Road, is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Her awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, an International Center for Jefferson Studies Fellowship, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.