- Visit the Hello Stranger Newsletter for the latest essays, trail guides, trip reports and gear reviews!
- Outdoorsy Girls Are Mean Girls, but we don’t have to be, Paddling Magazine
- Empowering Women to Get Outdoors, Still So Young Podcast
- How Much Does Geotagging Matter?, Outdoor Minimalist Podcast
- Welcoming Boreal Backcountry Cabins to the North Shore, Boreal Community Media
- Timber Coffee Company in Silver Bay Fills a Community and Visitor Need Along the North Shore, Boreal Community Media
- All Those Stairs, highlighting accessibility with Friends of the Apostle Islands on Hello Stranger
- Classic North Shore River Hikes May be Unsafe Early in 2023, Boreal Community Media
- Blog Posts from the Trail, Salish Sea Kayak Expedition Summer 2022
- Photography Assistant/ Sea Kayak Expedition Participant Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands are No Place for Amateur’s, National Geographic
- Tadpoles and Pandemic Hope, You Might Need to Hear This [creative nonfiction]
- Sea Kayaking the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Lake and Company Issue 19
- Best Kayaking Spots on the North Shore MN, North Shore Explorer
- Top Five Hidden Gems in Michigan for Hikers & Paddlers, Wandering Educators
- Sunshine’s Mixed Media Art Museum, Barely South Review [creative nonfiction]
- Kayaking on Lake Superior: Explore Miles of Spectacular Shoreline, Magnificent World
- Hidden Gems of the Northern Great Lakes: A Trail and Paddling Guide [book]
- Nick Adams Dies in a Diner, Pidgeonholes [creative nonfiction]
- Peace Corps Armenia Essays
- Vacationing in Michigan? Here are 10 Things That Will Probably Go Wrong, Michigan Overboard
- Ten Best Michigan Paddling Trips, Michigan Overboard
- Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News, Scientific American, with Dr. David Z. Hambrick
- Bad News for the Highly Intelligent, Scientific American, with Dr. David Z. Hambrick
- What’s Happening To Your Waste, Kellogg Biological Station
- Full archive of satire writing for The Black Sheep
Interviews
Paddling the Apostles: Sense of Adventure Series, Friends of the Apostle Islands
Read This: Hidden Gems of the Northern Great Lakes, Wandering Educators
“Kayaking Lake Superior,” Lake Superior Podcast, Sea Kayaking Safety and Isle Royale Wilderness
#VolunteerAbraodBecause… You’ll Make Meaningful Connections, Wandering Educators
Featured Artist: Maddy Marquardt, Up North Trading Company
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