An evening with Kim Frank, an award-winning writer and photographer who will discuss her new book, “Elephants in the Hourglass: A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya.” Delving deep into an intricate web of unlikely heroes, power struggles, and living legends, the book takes readers on an extraordinary journey of discovery. Kim blends personal narrative, vivid descriptions, and meticulous research as she illuminates the ways we seek to survive on our rapidly changing planet. It is a moving and adventure-filled tale of one woman’s quest for the truth about endangered Asian elephants and their evolving relationship with humans.

Kim is a female explorer who found her life completely changed as she was drawn deeper and deeper into the plight of the remarkable Asian elephant. Once she learned about the intense, multi-faceted, but little-known conflict between humans and elephants in North India, she was unable to rest until she had learned more and told this story to the outside world. This was a place and topic totally unknown to her. After a fraught divorce, she felt a need to recapture her own voice and expand her world, and so she set out to the Himalaya with the goal of telling a story worthy of National Geographic. What Kim experienced would change her life. Far from a story of good and evil in a world of displaced habitats, exploding population growth, migration, and climate change, Elephants in the Hourglass is filled with unforgettable characters and encounters with one of the most sensitive, intelligent, and awe-inspiring creatures on the planet.

Book signing with Iconoclast Books to follow.

Kim Frank’s work has been published in The Explorers Journal, Sidetracked, Oceanographic, Earth Island Journal, American Literary Review, SVPN (where she also served as Editor), and more. Projects include the books Born to Ice with National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen and Amaze with SeaLegacy founder Cristina Mittermeier, and writing/directing the documentary “Where the Forest Roars.” She is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society, with a Master of Fine Arts from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.