Why write?

As Virginia Woolf put it,

"That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it may lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly."

Or from Robert Bly's perspective,

“If you have a tiny farm, you need to love poetry more than the farm. If you sell apples, you need to love poetry more than the apples. It’s good to settle down somewhere and love poetry more than that.”

Some Publications

Confluences, Granta (2021)
The Many Lives of Wayne Merry, Alpinist Magazine (2020).
Why the World Needs Barry Lopez, Outside (2019).
The End of Exploration, The Walrus (2019); finalist for Short Feature Writing in 2020 National Magazine Awards.
The Future of Exploration, The Walrus (2018).
Lands of Lost Borders, The Georgia Review (2014); “notable” selection in Best American Travel Writing 2015.
Tuktoyaktuk or Bust, The Walrus (2014).
The Contours of Cold, CutBank (2012); “notable” selection in Best American Essays 2013.
Solute and isotope geochemistry of subsurface ice melt seeps in Antarctica, Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Microbial communities at the borehole observatory on the Costa Rica Rift flank, Frontiers in Microbiology.