Killing the Buddha

Meera Subramanian is senior editor of Killing the Buddha and writes about culture, faith and the environment for The New York Times, Audubon, Salon, Grist, Search, and others. She moved to New York to get her MA in journalism from NYU after another life spent as an environmental activist in the muddy woods of Oregon. Currently based in Brooklyn, she seeks out the wild world hidden within the urban landscape and spends an inordinate amount of time writing about birds. Visit her at meerasub.org.