About
Nathaniel Farrell Brodie worked for many years on the Grand Canyon National Park Service Trail Crew, as a Wilderness Ranger in the Sierra Nevada, and, currently, as Trails Manager in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. He received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Nonfiction Creative Writing from the University of Arizona.
He was the recipient of the PEN Northwest Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, a finalist for the Ellen Meloy Desert Fund, and the winner of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize. He co-edited Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press, 2016) and authored Steel on Stone: Working and Living in the Grand Canyon (Trinity University Press, 2019).
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, daughter, and son.