about
Photo: Rio Chantel
Writer \ Editor
Artist \ Athlete
Guide \ EDUCATOR
Past/Present Affiliations:
Managing Editor, Magic Canoe
Senior Editor, Outside & Trail Runner
Digital Strategist/Editor, Orion
Editor-In-Chief, Camas
Instructor, University of Montana, Oxford Academia, Wild Rockies Field Institute, Freeflow Institute, Missoula Writing Collaborative
Senior Guide, Aspire Adventure Running
M.S. Environmental Studies, University of Montana (2016)
Writing, films, photography, and audio are featured in Orion, Outside, Emergence, Longreads, The Dark Mountain Project, Best American Poetry Blog, Juxtaprose, Terrain.org, Trail Runner, Whitefish Review, Montana Quarterly, Clackamas Review, Patagonia's The Dirtbag Diaries Podcast, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Camas, and others.
The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere, published by Milkweed Editions on July 8, 2025, is now available. Learn more and pre-order at Fact & Fiction, Milkweed, Bookshop, and Amazon.
The Way Around
July 8, 2025
“Smart, funny, wise of mind and vast of heart, The Way Around offers a beautiful, intricate rebuke to our obsession with linearity and outcome. In place of the summit, it argues for the circumambulation; in place of the line, the circle; in place of the goal, the return. Over its course, the book buds its own subtle circles—kora, ourobouros, beaten bounds—and its patterns and rhythms begin to reshape themselves into rings and revolutions, until on the final pages both reader and writer are returned to the point of origin—though, of course, profoundly changed by the circumambulation that has brought them there.”
— Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Publications
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Films
Six Rivers Run. Spring 2017. Locations Manager/Fixer, US Leg #1. Multimedia Campaign following Mina Guli's attempt to run a marathon a day for six weeks, along six rivers around the world to raise awareness about global water crisis.
Photo: Kelvin Trautman
"Shaped by Fire." Summer 2016. Co-Director, Mountain Runner. Director/Producer: Bobby Jahrig. Best Conservation Film: 2017 International Wildlife Film Festival. Official Selection: Mountain Running Film Festival.
Shaped by Fire is the collective dream of Nick Littman and Nick Triolo, Missoula-based trail runners, writers, and lovers of wild places. Filmed and directed by Jahrig Media, "Shaped By Fire" takes us on a journey into the heart of the wild Great Burn and inspires action to designate the Great Burn Wilderness.
"The Musician." 2016. Salomon TV. Locations Assistant, Featured in film. Director/Produced: Dean Leslie (Wandering Fever) and Greg Fell (Fell and Co.)
Ben Gibbard is the frontman for American alternative rock band "Death Cab for Cutie", he also happens to love trail running. We linked up with him for a week during DCFC's 2015 US tour and got to know a bit more about his passion and love for the trails and music.
"The Crossing." 2014. Writer, Director. A 70-mile protest run in resistance to open-pit gold mining in Southern Baja, Mexico. Official Selection for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Mountain Running Film Festival, Todos Santos International Film Festival, and featured on Patagonia’s Dirtbag Diaries.
"Discover Turkey." 2012. Co-Director for two short documentary films about high school intercultural exchange in Turkey.
NSLI-Y talks to two Turkey Year Program participants during their final days in Turkey.
http://www.afsusa.org/hostfamily Meet Deniz and Yusuf, 2 AFS Exchange Students from Turkey who studied abroad in the US with AFS-USA. Both received scholarships through the US Department of State's Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program.
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