--- title: Lydia Millet | TIME description: Millet is the author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity. Her new book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, is a work of nonfiction about having children in a time of extinction and climate change. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona. canonical: https://time.com/author/lydia-millet/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/lydia-millet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lydia Millet ## Lydia Millet Millet is the author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity. Her new book, [_We Loved It All: A Memory of Life_](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324073659), is a work of nonfiction about having children in a time of extinction and climate change. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona. ## Lydia Millet *  Nov 19, 2024 ### [Climate Action in Trump 2.0](https://time.com/7177213/climate-action-in-trump-second-term-essay/) Climate action is a political winner. Trump should remember that, writes Lydia Millet. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 2, 2024 ### [The Complicated Dread of Early Spring](https://time.com/6962304/spring-summer-dread-lydia-millet/) "Summer doesn’t live up to the old metaphors anymore. These days, it’s more like a rage than a song,... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/lydia-millet/","name":"Lydia Millet"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/lydia-millet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/lydia-millet/"},"name":"Lydia Millet","jobTitle":null,"description":"Millet is the author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity. Her new book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, is a work of nonfiction about having children in a time of extinction and climate change. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona.","url":"https://time.com/author/lydia-millet/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```