Noah Marcel Sudarsky is an award-winning writer and journalist who occasionally surfs the turbulent eddies between reportage and fiction. He is an aspiring naturalist (thanks to the hours spent observing waterfowl in Central Park in his formative years) and has made rent money as a dog behaviorist (also in Central Park, mostly). Currently, he circumnavigates Northern California, where he is the part-time project coordinator at the Center for Environmental Structure in Berkeley—which is dedicated to the creation of thriving habitats and empowering communities who want to reclaim the built environment (from the kind of insatiable, sociopathic real estate developers who inhabit this story, mostly). He is a contributor to the New York Times, Salon, Earth Island Journal, the East Bay Express, Tikkun, Explorer’s Web, Publisher’s Weekly, the Onion, and many other publications.