Essays:

• “Chicken Tender,” Hazlitt

• “My Movie Theater,” Dirt

• “An Animal Myself: The Yearnings and Revulsions of Being Human,” Aeon

• “What Can Americans Agree On? Wolves,” The New York Times

• “Natural Selection,” Orion

• “Click, Pray, Chat,” Dirt

• “My Dates Need to Realize I’m Tired of Being Chill,” The New York Times

• “Pack Matters,” Oregon Humanities - Wolfish excerpt

• “‘A Night for Growing Up’ - What a Terrifying College Prank Taught Me About Fear,” The Guardian - Wolfish excerpt

• “Climate Grief was Clouding My Time Outside. So I Turned to Ecotherapy,” Outside

• “Letter to a Stranger: To the Cloud-Listener,” Off Assignment

• “The Case for Intergenerational Friendship,” The Guardian

• “Why We Need More Climate Change Love Stories,” Outside

• “The Anxiety Kitchen, or Cooking for the People I Cannot Hug,” Gastronomica

• “Everything Bright is Something Burned,” The Yale Review; Notable in Best American Essays 2020

• “Here in fire-stricken Oregon, an old way of life is gone,” The Guardian

• “The Everyday Madness of Teaching Under Lockdown in America,” Literary Hub

• “Cabin in the Woods,” Gulf Coast

• "Like a Shipwreck," Fourth Genre - Winner of the 2018 Steinberg Essay Prize; Notable in Best American Essays 2019

• “Actually, Ice Cream is Better in Winter,” Munchies (VICE)

• "Letter of Recommendation: Asteroid Day," The New York Times Magazine

• "On Worry," Colorado Review - Winner of 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project; Notable in Best American Essays 2018

• "Why Do We Fear Wolves?" Literary Hub

• "Crywolf," The Southeast Review - Nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Winner of The Southeast Review's 2017 Narrative Nonfiction contest and AWP's 2017 Kurt Brown Prize in Nonfiction

• "Beasts among Us," True Story

• "The Call of the Billboard," an Object Lesson, The Atlantic - Selected for The Paris Review's weekly roundup

• “Postcards from Munich,” Guernica

• “The Instafam’s Table,” Guernica - Selected for "Best of Guernica 2015," Eater's "Best Longform Food Writing of 2015," Enchantress Magazine's "Top-50 Nonfiction Works by Female Writers of 2015"

• “Fight or Flight,” The Morning News

• "The Lady and the Camp," Appalachia - selected as runner-up winner in 2015 Waterman Fund Essay Contest, published in University Press of New England's New Wilderness Voices anthology.

• "The Guide Inside," High Country News - selected as winner of spring essay contest.

Craft Essays:

• “What Looking at Your Naval Can Tell You About the World: The Politics of Personal Authority,” Electric Literature

• “The Polyamorous Intimacy of Reader, Author, and Audiobook Narrator,” Literary Hub

• “The Art of the Beachcomber: Creative Research,” The Millions

• “How Pottery Taught Me to Love Writing First Drafts,” Catapult

Reading Lists and Book Reviews:

• “What Plant Migrations Can Tell Us About Ourselves,” Scientific American

• “How the Moon Shaped Human History,” Scientific American

• Contributor to “Our Favorite Outdoor Adventure Books for Every State,” Outside

• “A Year in Reading 2023: Erica Berry,” The Millions

• “What to Read When: You Want to Think Kaleidoscopically About Place,” The Rumpus

• “Top Ten Stories About Wolves," The Guardian

• “‘Beloved Beasts’ is a Riveting History of Conservation: Review of Michelle Nijhuis’ Beloved Beasts,’ Outside

Journalism:

• "Letter from Minneapolis, Minnesota: Investing in the Muslim Community with Microloans," Pacific Standard magazine

• "The Country's First Somali-American Legislator and Her Politics of Inclusivity," Pacific Standard magazine

• "The Empowered Women of Little Mogadishu," Pacific Standard magazine

• "The Long, Slow Trek to Get Americans to Eat Camel Meat," NPR's The Salt and the Food and Environmental Reporting Network

• "A Big Investigation of Slaughterhouse Safety Highlights the Promise of Media Partnerships," Columbia Journalism Review

• "ProPublica Finds a Side Effect of Transparency—And is Transparent About What it Found," Columbia Journalism Review

• “How Local Media Coverage is Trying to Finally Force Cleveland to Solve its Lead Problem,” Columbia Journalism Review

• “10 Ways Big Food Is Changing to Meet Consumer Demand,” Eating Well and the Food and Environmental Reporting Network

• “Study: NYC’s Urban Gardens Have A Serious Lead Problem,” Food and Environmental Reporting Network

• “With No U.S. Standards, Pot Pesticide Use Is Rising Public Health Threat,” Rocky Mountain PBS/I-NEWS and the Food and Environmental Reporting Network

Interviews:

• "The Rumpus Interview with Nate Blakeslee," The Rumpus

• "The Rumpus Mini-Interview with Bruce Snow," The Rumpus

• "The Rumpus Interview with Tony Tulathimutte," The Rumpus

• "The Rumpus Interview with Blair Braverman," The Rumpus - Selected for Longreads list of stories about Alaska

Poetry:

• "The High Way," Scarborough Fair - selected as runner-up in spring 2016 international poetry contest

• "Romeo and Juliet," Acumen

Film:

• Co-producer of Amuri: The Sacred Flavors of Sicily documentary - headliner of 2015 Oxford Food Symposium, winner of bronze award in Spotlight Film Awards