selected publications:
Essays:
“An Animal Myself: The Yearnings and Revulsions of Being Human,” Aeon
“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
“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
Contributor to “Our Favorite Outdoor Adventure Books for Every State,” Outside
“What to Read When: You Want to Think Kaleidoscopically About Place,” The Rumpus
“‘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 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