My work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, National Geographic, Wired and Slate, among other outlets. My piece, “What’s Left Behind,” anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 and The Best American Travel Writing 2016. In 2018, I was a panelist at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where I discussed melting permafrost, antibiotic resistance and my piece about the search for new life at the North Pole.  More recently, my work has been included as notables in both Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 and Best American Food Writing 2023, and my piece “Take it Down and They’ll Return” was a finalist for a Non-Profit News Award. My writing has been supported by residencies from Shannaghe and Hewnoaks.

I hold an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, where I taught undergraduate creative writing.  I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and now I live in Maine with my family, where I freelance, parent, collect beach rocks that are only pretty when wet, and teach the occasional nonfiction workshop at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

Photo by Tara Rice