About
David J. Hirschman runs a small environmental business in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has worked around the U.S. and Pacific islands helping communities envision and actualize cleaner water. He writes a blog on various environmental themes, is the author of The Tenacious Bloom (www.tenaciousbloom.com), an environmental mystery published in 2024, and writes documentary scripts and assists with production for videos focused on mercury contamination in Virginia’s the Shenandoah Valley. His writing is inspired by many outdoor adventures around the world.
Featured Work
The Tenacious Bloom
Agent Aliyah Aurea with the FBI Division of Environmental Crimes is determined to build her career solving environmental crimes at the expense of her love life and often her personal safety. When a menacing poem lands in her inbox, posted by an unknown group of climate activists, Aliyah is plunged into an undercover mission in the dead of a Wisconsin winter. In this and other cases, she must navigate awkward alliances with the likes of a geologist rabbi, an imposing small town public works director, and a disgruntled botanist with a vendetta. Along the way, Aliyah draws inspiration from the family stories of her great grandmother, Packy, a root doctor in a Black, rural Georgia community before the family migrated north in the 1950s. When Aliyah uncovers a stealth organization intent on thwarting environmental progress stretching back to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, she makes a life-altering decision.
