Scott Slovic was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) in the early 1990s and then served for twenty-five years as editor-in-chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than thirty books in the field of ecocriticism, including Imagining Ecocatastrophe: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts in the Global Context and Chinese Ecocriticism: Toward an Ecological Civilization. He is currently a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and distinguished professor of environmental humanities emeritus at the University of Idaho. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.