Steve Hawley

Writer and filmmaker

Steven Hawley is a writer and filmmaker from Hood River, Oregon. His first book, Recovering a Lost River, (Beacon Press, 2011) examined the nascent science and activism around dam removal in the United States. In 2019, he co-produced Dammed to Extinction, a documentary about the plight of salmon-eating killer whales who ply the waters of the Pacific off the coast of Washington state. His latest book, Cracked: the Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World, is forthcoming from Patagonia Books in May of 2023.