Published Work

Non-Fiction

• On the Power of a Salt Marsh – Orion, June 26th, 2024

• And Then the Sea Glowed a Magnificent Milky Green – Hakai, June 21st, 2022

  -Republished in The Atlantic as: I Witnessed One of the Ocean’s Rarest Phenomena, June 25th, 2022

  -Republished in Popular Science as: We’re Getting Closer to Understanding Why the Sea Sometimes Glows, June 24th, 2022

  -Republished in Smithsonian Magazine as: What Causes Swaths of the Ocean to Glow a Magnificent Milky Green?, June 27th, 2022

• Dreaming of Water with Tiger Salamanders – Longreads, March 22nd, 2022

  -Recipient of a 2024 Pushcart Prize

  -Listed as Notable in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

• Mine – Assignment, March 6th, 2022

• Inhale, Exhale. – Outside, January 10th, 2022

• Searching for Lost Worlds – Terrain.org, October 27th, 2021

  -Nominated for The 2022 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award

• “Bioluminescence” – Orion, February 25th, 2020

• Living Light – Orion, Winter 2019

• How to Love an Earth Moon River Woman – Camas Magazine, Summer 2019

• Out of the Blue – National Geographic Society, April 9th, 2018

• Going Back in Time in Raja Ampat – National Geographic Society, March 4th, 2018

• Friends, and Heroes, of Mansuar – National Geographic Society, March 3rd, 2018

• Adventure (and Misadventure) in Raja Ampat – National Geographic Society, February 4th, 2018

• Traveling a Silver Road Across the Banda Sea – National Geographic Society, January 14th, 2018

• Sailing a 108-Year-Old Ship Through the Most Biologically-Diverse Marine Ecosystem on the Planet – National Geographic Society, December 28th, 2017

• A Hierarchy on the Value of Life – An essay published by The Earth First! Journal, Winter 2015/16, Vol. 35, No. 4

Fiction

• Sip the Straw – A full-length, illustrated children’s book published by Social Motion Publishing

• Venom – A short story published by The New Guard Literary Review, Volume VI

  -Finalist in the Machigonne Story Contest

  -Honorable mention in Glimmer Train

• Hourglass – A short story published by Harpur Palate, Issue 15.2

  -Winner of the 2015 John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction

"My body created an upside-down fountain of white light as I slammed through the surface of the water, instantaneously incandescent. I flailed around wildly, sending limbs and sparks in all directions. My slim, creaturely legs resembled two long, bony-tailed fish glowing in a wet splendor. My crewmates shouted that it looked like I was on fire: a watery self-immolation; a scintillated baptism; a sacred, gleaming doggy-paddle. To swim in light. To become light. If this was the only thing I ever experience before leaving this world forever, it would have been worth it.”

Excerpt from Living Light, an essay appearing in the Winter 2019 issue of Orion Magazine