Michael Sean Comerford – Editor

Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Michael Sean Comerford recently finished an epic "slow journalism" climate project bicycling the entire Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.

He's worked with the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Tribune/New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Moscow Times, Budapest Sun and Budapest Business Journal.

He recently bicycled 7,000 miles, across 21 states for about a year in one of the craziest climate years on record. He asked hundreds of ordinary people about their views and experiences with climate change from Maine to Key West, Seattle to San Diego and Mexico to the Everglades.

He's writing a book about 2023 - living in the climate, reporting on the climate. The project was in cooperation with the University of Florida. The tentative title for the book is 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝐶𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒: 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑠.

Another slow journalism book called 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡 was about bicycling the length of Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles in the winter of 2021, during a surge in Covid. He asked everyday people about their opinions on the pandemic of our time.

His first book was 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑍: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 & 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠. In a work of immersion journalism, he worked rides and games from Alaska to Mexico, California to New York. It has been an Amazon bestseller for nearly three years. American OZ drew high critical acclaim.

Comerford has toured nearly 100 countries, ridden freight trains and rode herd out West and once narrowly escaped a hippo attack on the Zambezi River.

Comerford is a versatile writer, editor and journalist who is passionate and dedicated to high standards.