Bronwen Dickey is a freelance journalist and the author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, POLITICO Magazine, Outside, Men’s Journal, Slate, Garden & Gun, and Best American Travel Writing, among other publications, and she has been featured as a guest on NPR’s Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Code Switch, and 1A. In 2017, she was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. She lives in North Carolina.