Briggs Nisbet writes and gardens in Oakland, California.

Briggs is the creator of True Dirt a popular blog on gardening, nature, and life.

She cofounded Enterzone and was its Nonfiction Editor from 1994 to 1998. She is also a contributor to Telegraph, Enterzone's inchoate successor, and to Edgewise, a political weblog.

Briggs' essay A Tree Grows in Oakland was published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine on May 16, 2004.

A comprehensive list of her web writings will appear here someday.

Likewise her list of publishing credits.

Here are some of the things she has written for Enterzone and Telegraph:

• In downtown Oakland
• Write This Book
• Women's Work or An Unsentimental Education
• Four Views of a Saxon Tower
• Berkeley of Your Mind
• Nylons
• Between the Forceps and the Stone
• In Camera
• A Geography of Smell
• Alien Lands in Cyberspace

Here are some of the things you find when you Google Briggs:

• Tramping East Bay to the Bay Bridge
• What is Wetlands Restoration and Why Do We Need It?
• Hangar One Pollutes Marsh
• History 147a (California Environmental History) syllabus, UC Santa Cruz
• Sporkie