Jenny Price, writer and environmental activist, will give a free reading as part of the Working Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross.

Price is a writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger and research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. She writes about the environment, Los Angeles, environmentalism, gun control, the Malibu beach wars and public space. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (Basic Books, 1999), she’s written for numerous media outlets, including The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and writes “Green Me Up, JJ” a not-quite advice column for L.A. Observed. With the Urban Rangers art collective, she has been a resident artist at the Orange County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

She has taught at UCLA, the University of Southern California and Antioch-Los Angeles; has been a Guggenheim fellow and was the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University in fall 2011. She has an A.B. from Princeton, where as a biology major she studied the white-winged trumpeters of the Amazon rain forest, and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, where she studied the plastic pink flamingos of the American grasslands.

She is currently working on a new book titled Stop Saving the Planet! & Other Tips for 21st Century Environmentalists.

For more information, visit www.holycross.edu.