ABOUT

I’m a writer, documentary filmmaker and freelance media producer living in the Pacific Northwest. My newest film, The Wonder and the Worry, about the careers of father-daughter National Geographic photographers Chris and Louise Johns, premiered in February 2024 at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and won best environmental film at the Tryon International Film Festival that year. It is available for educational distribution and live events and will be released on consumer-facing streaming services soon.

Other films include American Wine Story, Saving Atlantis, which screened at the United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, and Three Days of Glory, the 2018 IACP award-winner for best film.

My books include the nonfiction title The Lost Continent, and my novel Vintage, which has been called “spellbinding” and “positively delightful” among other nice things. I’ve written fiction and nonfiction for publications ranging from Failbetter.com to Hair Trigger, MSN, The Briar Cliff Review, Narrative.ly and Terra Magazine.

I pay my bills by creating documentary, video and broadcast content that makes a positive difference in the world. I work as an independent filmmaker on documentary projects with a purpose and also with select nonprofits. I also teach documentary film studies in the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University where I work as director of the OSU Story Lab, training the next generation of science storytellers.

I also take photos, above and below the water. You can find and download some of them at Unsplash.

I live in the spectacularly beautiful state of Oregon on the rainy side of the mountains, and when I’m not hiking, surfing, baking or doing something outside, I’m usually reading and occasionally writing books.

I’m fortunate to have Kimberley Cameron of Kimberley Cameron & Associates representing my literary work.