Author Visit: David Hage and Josephine Marcotty present Sea of Grass

Join the Des Moines Public Library and Beaverdale Books for an evening with David Hage and Josephine Marcotty at the Franklin Avenue Library. 

Hage and Marcotty are the authors of Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie, which will be published on May 27, 2025.

David Hage oversaw environmental and health reporting at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for a dozen years, editing projects that won a Pulitzer Prize and an Edward R. Murrow Award, among other honors. His previous books include No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor’s War at Hormel, and Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work. A Minneapolis native, he lives in St. Paul with his wife.

Josephine Marcotty is an award-winning environmental journalist who has spent her life in the Midwest. She was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she covered complex, science-based topics. Sea of Grass is a natural expansion of her reporting on the vanishing prairie and the consequences of intensive agriculture. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband.