NYT Bestselling Author of Becoming Earth, Contributing Writer to The New York Times Magazine
portland, oregon, united states
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Claim your profileI am the NYT Bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. I have also written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, New York, National Geographic, Outside, Wired, Lapham's Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Slate, Pacific Standard, Modern Farmer, Popular Mechanics, Aeon, Nautilus, Quanta, Hakai, Vox, Medium, Scholastic, NOVA Next, MinuteEarth, The Awl, and McSweeney's. I've received fellowships from Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Whiting Foundation. My work been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. I have an MA in journalism from New York University and a Bachelor of Science from Tufts University.





