Family and Environmental Legacies Kerri Arsenault is a literary critic, co-founder of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University (TESS), contributing editor at Orion Magazine, and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Mill Town won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction, and shortlisted for the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics and the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize.