Michelle Nijhuis

Michelle Nijhuis lives in western Colorado, between the foothills of the Rockies and the redrock canyons of southern Utah. She is a contributing editor of the environmental journal High Country News and a correspondent for Orion, and her work has appeared in many publications including Smithsonian, Salon.com, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Sierra, Audubon, and the anthology Best American Science Writing . She is the winner of several national journalism awards, including the 2006 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, and is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She often ventures away from the Coyote Commons to cover stories throughout the western United States, northern Mexico and beyond.

Michelle’s website: http://www.coyotecommons.org/michelle.html