Overview
I am a freelance writer/editor for Mountaineers Press, Backpacker magazine, Survivor's Edge, Roots Rated, and others. A native Pacific Northwesterner, my previous work experience includes NYC-based stints at Oxford University Press, Harris Publications, and St. Martin's Press as a non-fiction acquiring editor for the environment, science, politics, and history. In 2014, I headed back to the mountains, thru-hiking the 2600-mile Pacific Crest Trail, followed by the 486-mile Colorado Trail, the 93-mile Wonderland Trail, as well as section hikes along the Oregon Coast Trail and Pacific Northwest Trail. When I'm not in the mountains testing gear or creating GPX tracks, I can be found at home in Seattle.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences
History
Sports & Outdoors
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
Self-employed
Oct, 2014 —
Present
Pacific Crest Trail
May, 2014 —
Sep, 2014
(4 months)
Harris Publications
Aug, 2013 —
Apr, 2014
(8 months)
Macmillan
Apr, 2009 —
Jul, 2013
(about 4 years)
Portfolio
Our national parks are beautiful and unique places, often serving as an introduction to the outdoors and inspiring an appreciation for nature and wilderness. Similarly, stories and storytelling can serve as an introduction to other places and foster a powerful... read more
Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Vald... read more
For centuries, Californians and the Japanese have known that they were at risk of catastrophic earthquakes, and prepared accordingly. But when a violent 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti in 2010, hardly anyone knew the island nation was even at risk for disaster, an... read more
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United ... read more
After Barack Obama's solid win in the 2012 election, it's easy to forget that there was a time, not long ago, when the Democrats were shut out of power for over a decade. But Al From remembers. In 1984, he led a small band of governors, US senators, and member... read more
A new group of Americans is challenging the reign of the Religious RightToday, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group at a time when traditional Christian churches are dwindling in numbers - and they are flexing their muscles l... read more
In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots during... read more
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores t... read more
Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for year... read more
Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriora... read more
