Writings on adventure, environment, and people expanding human potential.
Author and journalist writing on adventure, environment, and the West.
Writing, reading, trail running, toddler tusslingโand just trying to pay attention.
The Westrn is a collective of professional writers and journalists focused on storytelling in the outdoor space. We publish a quarterly 32-page newspaper serving the outdoor community as part of our Substack subscription.
Stories, short essays, and discussion rooted in our work and life here at Long Step Farm, based in Frenchtown, Montana. We're a no-till, certified organic flower, veggie and herb farm.
A novelist, essayist, and poet, I write about landscape, loss, class, family, memory, and the American West. I try to interrogate notions of masculinity and am always paying attention to rural spaces and the rural/urban divide.
Separating the news from the noise. We give you information, not a panic attack.