Nastassja Martin is a French author and anthropologist who has studied the Gwich’in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula. In addition to two books arising from this research, she has also written Croire aux fauves, a memoir recounting her life-changing encounter with a wild bear in Kamchatka, which was published in English, translated by Sophie R. Lewis, as In the Eye of the Wild (NYRB).