The Rumpelstiltskin of creative writing, I love taking a bright idea and spinning it into gold.

I’m available for copywriting across all fields, deep-dive editing, narrative journalism assignments, ghostwriting, and communications consultations with nonprofits and environmentally conscious businesses.

About me: my science writing has been published in newspapers and journals including Hakai Magazine, Bay Nature, Only One, Grist, and the Western National Parks Association.

I’m the recipient of the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the New Conrads Prize in fiction, the Bill Waller Award for Nonfiction, the Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship for the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop, and a Carson Scholarship in science communication. I graduated from Harvard University with degrees in English & American Literature & Language and Organismic & Evolutionary Biology; my writing bridges those studies, exploring our human relationship with a changing planet. I hold an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of Arizona, and I guide wilderness trips from Alaska to Baja and most places between.

Browse my project page for examples of my editing and copywriting.