Nastassja Martinis an anthropologist, graduate of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and specialist in Arctic populations. She is the author of WildSouls. Facing the West. The Resistance of an Alaskan people, and IntheEyeof theWild (New York Review Books, 2021). She co-directed, with Mike Magidson, the documentary Tvaian, which will be released in the fall of 2021.