Nicole Seymour is an environmental humanist and the author of two monographs: Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age. With Katherine Fusco, she co-authored Kelly Reichardt: Emergency and the Everyday for University of Illinois Press' Contemporary Film Directors series.