FINDING ATLANTIS, TERRAIN.ORG

When I was still a child, the first story I heard about a flood was the tale of Noah's Ark. There was a man, Noah... 

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LOST, AN INVENTORY, NEWFOUND

In the spring of 2013, approximately $300,000 worth of jewels were found in a small metal box marked “Made in India”...

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THEORY OF WORLD ICE, FLYWAY

In the spring of 2017, the United States of America withdraws from the Paris Climate Accord. Six weeks later, an iceberg...

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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER, POST ROAD 

I walked and walked the only summer I lived in Wyoming. I was staying in a professor’s house in town: tan stucco with..

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SPEED OF FALLING, THE PINCH

I imagine it went something like this: he was running, bounding up the trail, two steps at a time, one leg moving forward while...

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THE LYRIC INVITATION, FOURTH GENRE

When I began reading and writing nonfiction, I—like many young students and writers—first equated literary nonfiction...

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GLACIOLOGY, RIVER TEETH

It’s quiet on the glacier—and not the good kind of quiet. It’s the long quiet—the quiet that splits you open, leaves you flayed...

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SPECIAL ED., FOURTH GENRE

It was an early morning, late September—fog lifting off the farm fields, the blacktop road wet and glistening and vacant....

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DRIVING WYOMING, PASSAGES NORTH

It's five a.m., still dark, and the steam is rising off the cracked blacktop centerline like fog over the farmfields...​

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THEORIZING NONFICTION, ASSAY

One of my first creative writing professors once told me, “Theory works best when it’s like a backyard shed; you go there when...