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I’m faculty in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara, where I teach courses focused on professional writing. I earned my Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota. I also hold a master’s degree in Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Much of my writing combines ideas about the human-animal connection with environmental storytelling and nonfiction.

My latest book, An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors: Conservation, Compassion and Connectivity, contributes to and extends current knowledge about wildlife corridors by arguing that ideas about compassion, empathy, and traditional ecological knowledge should inform wildlife corridor and connectivity projects.

My other recent book, At Home in the Anthropocene, tells a set of wildlife stories focused on the question of what counts as “home” at a time when the ecosystems that vulnerable nonhuman species call home are constantly in flux for reasons related largely to the impacts of human action. Underpinning much of my work is the notion that writing and communication can function in the service of creating more sustainable futures.