Virginia Aronson is the author of the chapbooks Itako (Clare Songbirds Publishing, 2020) and Tropical Diagnoses (Finishing Line Press, 2011). She is the director of FNR Foundation, which published Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life (Dixi Books, 2019). FNR supports nonprofit organizations that work to improve the broken food system and make healthy food available to all or teach ways of feeding and eating that are good for the earth.