Image copyright J. Tarpley
Writing on Art & the Environment
On Cairns, Hoodoos, and Monoliths: What Happens in the Desert Shouldn’t Always Stay in the Desert, Literary Hub
This essay was listed as notable in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021.
The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies: or, What Can Tarot Cards Tell Us about Climate Change?, Brooklyn Magazine
Industrial Ecosystem, Orion Magazine (May/June 2016 issue)
Fireside, Orion Magazine (July/August 2015 issue)
Search History, Recess Art Critical Writing Fellowship
Personal Essays
The Desert Half, Catapult
Hear me read "The Desert Half" on Episode 25 of Out There
In Praise of Running to Audiobooks, Outside Online
Go West, Young Woman essay series for Medium:
Myth-Making in Wide-Open Spaces
Mining for Stories in a Historic Western Boomtown
Unraveling the Myth of Rugged Independence
The West Keeps Calling Me Back
The Moon and the Rock Shop Girls, Off Assignment
Expanding the Story: What I Learned as a New Yorker in Resilient New Orleans, Guernica
Vessel, Sundog Lit
Hear me read "Vessel" on Episode 14 of the Catapult Podcast
A Sip of Elsewhere: On Reading Into and Out of Place, The Common Online
Walls, Treehouse Magazine, third-place winner of Treehouse’s Literary Loot Contest for Unusual Prose
Selected Journalism
'We have to organize like the NRA’: outdoor industry takes on Trump, the Guardian
Lessons from Horseshoe Bend on How to Save Our Parks, Outside Online
Changing Tides: How the Mirabeau Water Garden Could Shift the Way New Orleanians Think About Water, Pacific Standard
No one’s talking about land use, Salon
Why Every Radio Interview Starts with Breakfast, Extra Crispy
Selected High Country News stories:
Utah national monuments face dramatic reductions
In rural Colorado, can art provide an economic engine?
Advice from Moab’s mayor: Be careful what you wish for
In Grand Staircase-Escalante, coal and fossils lie side by side
(Full list of HCN stories available here)
Books Coverage
‘The Only Way We’re Going to Stay Whole’: Writer Pam Houston on Finding Solace in the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Standard
Confronting Edward Abbey on the 50th Anniversary of Desert Solitaire, Pacific Standard
Sara Majka on Finding the Distance to Write a Story, Electric Literature
Books By Wild and Fearless Women, Read It Forward