Veronika Kratz (she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a settler scholar whose work sits at the intersection of the environmental humanities and US literary and cultural studies. 

Her current projects include the monograph, A Drought with No End: The Cultural Life of Desertification, which is under contract with Texas Tech University Press. A Drought with No End examines desertification (the idea that desert-like conditions can result from severe drought and land degradation) as a cultural discourse that shapes how we understand and respond to environmental crisis in arid and semi-arid lands. Her work has appeared in ISLE, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, the NiCHE Blog and in the recent edited collection, Storied Deserts: Re-Imagining Global Arid Lands (Routledge 2024).