Erica Gies / SlowWater.world

@ericagies.bsky.social

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Author of "Water Always Wins," National Geographic Explorer, TEDx speaker, independent journalist for Scientific American, Nature, NYT, the Atlantic, bioGraphic, and others. Fan of critters, plants, democracy, kindness.

Times Literary Supplement cover, March 20, 2026

Erica Gies on stage at TEDx Boston

Cartoon sushi cheerleading with broccoli pompons

Cinquefoil plane and shadow

Erica Gies speaking in a room to people about Slow Water and her book "Water Always Wins" for the Carmel River Watershed Conservancy's celebration of California Wildlife Day.

American white pelican eats fish at Santee Lakes

Human form in stone, missing head, arms, and feet, leaning against a wall.

People ride in a small vehicle at Palmyra, Syria

Palmyra from on high

Roman arch at Palmyra

A woman shops in a Damascus souk

Restaurant in a former mansion, Damascus, Syria

Street scene in Damascus, Syria, with vendors selling nuts.

Mangroves near Sarasota Bay.

Snake River near Lower Granite Dam.

Erica Gies standing at the lectern giving the Southam Lecture for University of Victoria Fine Arts Department.

Snake River near Jackson Hole, WY.

Yampa River in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Beach at Asilomar near Monterey, Calif.

Chinese cover of book Water Always Wins, showing a boy wading in flood waters amidst a damaged house and car.