Steven Simpson's career spans three related disciplines and two continents. As a Fulbright scholar in the early 1990s, he left Iowa State University to teach at National Taiwan University. More recently, he taught environmental education, outdoor recreation, and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Environmental Education. Prior to academia, he worked as a naturalist in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California. Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World is his fifth book.