Photo: Stacey Krolow
I'm a writer, oral historian, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and National Geographic Explorer. I write about the environment and its entanglement with history, culture, and identity.
Freelance narrative non-fiction in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Guardian, Oxford American, Aeon, The Walrus, Hazlitt, and elsewhere.
2010-present
2023
Oral historian and project manager, Know History.
Elected Fellow to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club
Published TREE THIEVES: CRIME AND SURVIVAL IN NORTH AMERICA’S WOODS
2022
Named a National Geographic Explorer: Conduct oral history interviews in the Peruvian Amazon about timber poaching from conservation land.
Archivist at the Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park
2018
Oral history interviews with the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Cultural Heritage Study.
Oral history interviews with former British-Antarctic whalers in Shetland.
MLitt Environmental History (Distinction) from the University of St Andrew
2017
2012-2013
Off-grid life in a beachside cabin in Haida Gwaii.
Working holiday in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Bachelor of Journalism (Honours), University of King’s College
2008
AWARDS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Fellow, The Explorers Club (2023)
Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2023)
Finalist, BC Yukon Book Prizes, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2023)
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (2023 )
Finalist, Columbia University/Nieman Foundation J. Anthony Lukas Book Award (2023)
Long-listed, PEN-America Kenneth R. Galbraith Award for Non-Fiction (2023)
Associate Fellow, Royal Historical Society (2022)
Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition, Environmental Literature (2022)
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference (2019)
National Geographic Explorer (2018)
Banff Centre Mountain and Wilderness Writing Workshop (2013)
BYLINES
AEON
OXFORD AMERICAN
SWERVE
MAISONNEUVE
THE GUARDIAN
ROADS & KINGDOMS
SLATE
MACLEANS
CORPORATE KNIGHTS
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
THE WALRUS
SMITHSONIAN
THE ATLANTIC
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
EIGHTEEN BRIDGES
HAZLITT