I live and write at the edge of the Beartooth Mountains in Montana and in a remote village on the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece. My articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Guardian, Scientific American, Orion Magazine, The Boston Globe, and other publications.
Recent Stories
“The bright waters of the Narta lagoon mirrored the sky — until a massive white bird soared in from the Adriatic, skimming the surface with its dangling feet…I’d traveled to the delta to see a place renowned for its wildness — before its wildness is muted…” May 2025
The Latest Battleground for Luxury Tourism: Albania’s Adriatic Coast
ORION
Heart’s Home: A conversation about borders, belonging, and keeping the Kushners out
“Sometimes all it takes is for a single voice to be raised for it to ripple through others and become a collective energy…” OCTOBER 2025
-Naturalist and author, Julian Hoffman
Selected Stories
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Latest Battleground for Luxury Tourism: Albania’s Adriatic Coast
Two major proposals led by Jared Kushner and a new airport championed by the Albanian government focus on an area prized for its biodiversity. Are they a sign of things to come?
MAY 2025
ORION MAGAZINE
Heart’s Home:
A conversation about borders, belonging, and keeping the Kushners out, with Julian Hoffman
OCTOBER 2025
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Last Stand: The Struggle to Save an Untouched American Old-Growth Forest
“…Deep in a remote and rugged region known as the Yaak, this 192-acre expanse I am walking, unceremoniously called Unit 72 by the U.S. Forest Service, offers a rare glimpse of an original arboreal landscape. This is what the forests that cloak the surrounding mountains and valleys looked like before the axe and the chainsaw…”
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN & THE FOOD & ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK
“Restoration Economy” Strives to Protect Pollinators, Create Jobs
Conservationists hope to boost livelihoods along the poverty-stricken Arizona–Mexico borderlands by repairing habitat for more than 900 species of wild pollinators
Featured in The New York Times’ round-up of the year’s best “solution oriented” journalism.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Italy’s Timeless Trails
In Puglia and in pastoral regions around the world, an ancient migration remains a community tradition.
Winner of the Silver Award for Cultural Tourism from the Society of American Travel Writers
THE GUARDIAN
Hiking Greece’s Ancient Island Paths
On the islands of Sifnos and Kythera, the revival of ancient walking routes offers low-impact tourism that is a lifeline for rural communities.
THE GUARDIAN
How Agritourism is Giving a Helping Hand on Greece’s Farms
As Greek farmers look to diversify in response to challenges posed by a volatile market and climate change, some are turning to agritourism.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Behind Barbed Wire, Beneath a Big Sky
Wyoming’s Heart Mountain recalls WWII fears, injustices.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lessons in Resilience from Rural Greece
As the world watches to see whether new bailout talks will ultimately prevent a collapse of the Greek economy, my neighbors in rural Greece carry on with their lives as they have for centuries…
AFAR
The Hyper Local Ingredient that’s Both Healthy and Delicious
On Greece’s Peloponnese Peninsula, food is sourced from hillside to hearth
