Winner of the 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grants for works in progress
August 4, 2023— Today in The New York Review of [...]
“Bodies of Knowledge” out now in Orion magazine
My feature “Bodies of Knowledge” opens this issue of Orion magazine, about the mystery of nature/the nature of mystery. Amitav Ghosh, Lacy Johnson, & Tommy Orange also
Remembering Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez died on Christmas. At The Georgia Review, I [...]
The Best American Science & Nature Writing
It’s out! Thank you to this year’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing editor Sy Montgomery for selecting “The Fading Stars: A Constellation” for the anthology.
Remembering W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin, my favorite living poet, beloved to so many [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
“The Soft Things” out now
A piece I wrote last year about native mussel species [...]