Etel Adnan is a visual artist, poet, and essayist living and working in Paris, France. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, her writing integrates perspectives on subjects such as the nature of creative work, the landscape of Northern California, and the politics of exile and social injustice. Adnan became a painter in her forties as an act of resistance, and much of her visual work focuses on the landscape of Mount Tamalpais as seen from the home in Sausalito she shared with her partner, Simone Fattal.