William L. Fox is a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. His numerous nonfiction books rely upon fieldwork with artists and scientists in extreme environments to provide the narratives through which he conducts his investigations. He is an art critic, science writer, cultural geographer; Guggenheim, Royal Geographic Society, NEH and NSF Fellow and serves as the Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.

Fox has authored and co-authored several books on landscape photography and is currently conducting research for his forthcoming publication Art of the Anthropocene.