“The Fading Stars” selected for the next Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology
I’m happy to share that my essay “The Fading Stars: [...]
“Deep in Time” reprinted in The Utne Reader
Happy to say that The Utne Reader picked up “Deep [...]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being My Father
For so many of us, Father’s Day leads to that [...]
More on the Root-digger
Four summers ago, I went to write a magazine story [...]
Pushcart Prize nomination
Thank you to terrain.org for nominating my essay “Seven Words for Sustenance and [...]
Best American Travel Writing
My essay “Places that Have No Names,” in which I [...]
Watershed: The Tennessee River
My essay “A Complicated Belonging” accompanies Jeff Rich’s collection of photographs [...]
Stories from the Big Island of Hawai’i
I spent five weeks this summer living and working on [...]
“The Soft Things” out now
A piece I wrote last year about native mussel species [...]
Mycelial Threads
Mycelium as both metaphor for, and actual physical reality of, interconnectivity [...]