Nicole Harkin, an award-winning writer and natural-light photographer based in Washington, DC, spent years working on government oversight. Tilting, A Memoir is her first book. She grew up in Montana and Georgia with parents who were steeped in the airline industry. She was recently featured on the Cool Tools podcast talking about her favorite uncommonly good tools and her writing. As a Fulbright Scholar during law school, Nicole lived in Berlin, Germany where she studied German environmentalism. Her work can be found in Thought Collection and you are here: The Journal of Creative Geography. Her current work in progress, Death in Berlin, is a murder mystery set in Berlin. Her photography can be seen at: www.nicoleharkin.com.