Environmental Journalist and Author

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Environmental Journalism

My writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Science, the Washington Post, the New York Times, National Geographic, Outside, High Country News, and many other publications, and has been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing.

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Road Ecology

I’m the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (W.W. Norton & Co.), named one of 2023’s best books by the New York Times and winner of the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing.

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Beavers

My previous book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Chelsea Green Publishing), received the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

 

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