The Cartography of Leaving
On what it means to draw borders around the places we love and the ones we leave behind.
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Writing
Essays, longform pieces, and field notes rooted in geography, place, and the environmental humanities. Most of my work sits somewhere between reportage and lyric essay.
Essays
Geographies of Grief
How loss reshapes the landscapes we thought we knew — a meditation on return.
Read →What the Contour Lines Know
Reading topographic maps as emotional documents, and the elevation of ordinary terrain.
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High Desert, Early March
A dispatch from the cold edge of the Colorado Plateau, where snow and sandstone argue.
Read →Rivers Don’t Forget
How watershed memory outlasts the civilizations built along its banks.
Read →Driving the Basin and Range
Three days across the Great Basin — geology, silence, and the interstate as transect.
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