Michelle Nijhuis

Michelle performed on our virtual stage for Seriously Entertaining on April 20, 2021, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Only Home We’ve Ever Known.” Watch it below.

Michelle Nijhuis is a project editor at the Atlantic, a contributing editor at High Country News, and an award-winning reporter whose work has been published in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is co-editor of The Science Writers’ Handbook and lives in White Salmon, Washington. Her new book is Beloved Beasts.

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