Essays

“Exquisite Corpus,” The Offing. March 2025. Web.

“Love Songs in Other Languages.” Ecotone 35: The Labor Issue. 2024. Print.

“Money.” Split Lip. March 2023. Web.

“Weightless.” Graphic narrative. Gulf Coast. Online Exclusives Issue 35.2 Winter/Spring 2023. Web.

“Overwinter, Ohio 2021.” The Forge Literary Magazine. January 2023. Web.

“Virtual writer’s desk” blog for SciArt Initiative’s “The Bridge: Experiments in Science & Art” residency. September 2019 to January 2020. Web.

“This surprisingly smart poison frog makes maps in its mind.” National Geographic. July 2019. Web.

“Dear Mangalyaan: What India’s Mars mission means to me.” National Geographic. November 2018. Web. Translations: español, français.

“Estudios de una ciudad en movimiento.” Prose, poetry, and illustrations in Spanish, in Dispersión Urbana: LAB de Arte y Ciencia 2017: Ciudad de Panamá. Ed. Estudio Nuboso. May 2018. Print and web.

“Through Books, I Learned to Love the Natural World I Never Saw.” Electric Literature. February 2018. Web.

“Sociopathy, Justice, and the Mob: Black Mirror Cracks Us Open.” Bright Wall/Dark Room. November 2017. Web.

“See Me: Intersectional Sexuality in Margarita, with a Straw.” Bright Wall/Dark Room. September 2017. Web.

“Least Concern.” Territory Issue V: Treasure. June 2017. Web.

Book Reviews

“The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh.” Orion Magazine. 35th Anniversary Issue 2017: 91–92. Print.

“Limber, Angela Pelster.” Orion Magazine. September/October 2015: 62–63. Print.

“The Tusk That Did the Damage, Tania James.” Orion Magazine. July/August 2015: 59. Print.

“Friends of Flyway Summer Reads: Karl Taro Greenfeld’s “NowTrends”.” Flyway – Journal of Writing & Environment. August 2012. Web.

Selected Science Writing

For the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Think like a Forest. TRóPICOS 2.2 (October 2017). Print and web. 60 pages. Writer and editor. Print and web.

~ Video scripting and animation. “A Simple Idea.” TRóPICOS 2.2 (2017). Web.

“Tropical diversity takes root in relationships between fungi and seeds.” News release. October 3, 2017. Web.

“Egg-sitting frogs create safe exit for tadpoles.” EurekAlert news release. March 31, 2017. Web.

“Tropical sea urchins caught between a rock and a hot place.” EurekAlert news release. August 12, 2016. Web.

“After the age of dinosaurs came the age of ant farmers.” EurekAlert news release. July 20, 2016. Web.

“A history in bones.” Newsletter article. July 9, 2016.

“Evolution painted onto butterfly wings.” EurekAlert news release. June 10, 2016. Web.

Disease Ecology: Unhealthy Forests. TRóPICOS 2.1. June 2016. Web. 48 pages. Editor. Author of: “‘New World’ diseases.” 2. Print and web.

~ Video interview and animation. “The Dilution Effect.” TRóPICOS 2.1 (2015). Web.

“Mangrove decline through the ages in Central and South America.” Newsletter article. May 27, 2016. Web.

“Nine new species of goby fishes found in Caribbean deep reefs.” Newsletter article. May 27, 2016. Web.

“New species of fly parasitizes fungus-growing ant.” Newsletter article. May 13, 2016. Web.

“Tree heights may indicate tree diversity in forests.” Newsletter article. May 13, 2016. Web.

“Large new catalogue of Pacific Ocean moss-animals.” Newsletter article. April 29, 2016. Web.

“Bat man IDs bats by smell alone.” STRI News. October 30, 2015. Web.

Neurobiology: Behavior and the Brain. TRóPICOS 1.7 (2015). Web. 42 pages. Editor. Author of: “Beeline flights in the dark.” 5–9. Print and web.

~ Video interview and animation. “Night Vision.” TRóPICOS 1.7 (2015). Web.

“Flatworms flout global biodiversity patterns.” Newsletter article. July 20, 2015. Web.

“New tropical tree species await discovery.” Newsletter article. June 8, 2015. Web.

For the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

“With targeting, no more ‘random acts of conservation.’” Leopold Letter 26.4 (2014). Web.

“Are you mining soil organic matter?” Leopold Letter 26.4 (2014). Web.

“Leopold Center project helps Iowa prepare for ash tree pest.” Leopold Letter. 26.3 (2014). Web.

“From energy to food and back again.” Leopold Letter. 26.1 (2014). Web.

“Growing sweet potatoes in Iowa: A recipe for success.” Leopold Letter. 25.4 (2013). Web.

“Liebman on sustainability: Value diversity, foster relationships.” Leopold Letter. 25.4 (2013). Web.

“New study investigates bacteria movement in the environment.” Leopold Letter. 25.3 (2013). Web.

“You pick, then I pick – Machinery sharing on fruit and vegetable farms.” Leopold Letter. 25.3 (2013). Web.