Writing things.

About me

I’m a writer and historian, with background in science, climate and literature. I study scientific uncertainty, satellite vision, and the history of predicting the future. My writing has appeared in Popular Science, The Washington Post, Wired, Grist, and I've followed stories to Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, Venice, and the Florida Keys.

Ask me about: Antarctica, fractals, coral reefs, Modernism, the sea. 

Books

Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, Imagined

by Amelia Urry, Michael Frame

Yale University Press, 2016

“Fractal Worlds portrays math as math lovers know it: a beautiful garden, a place of curiosity and delight, a tribute to human creativity and the wonders of nature.”—Steven Strogatz, author of The Joy of X

Coming of Age at the End of Nature

Edited by Susan A. Cohen, Julie Dunlap

Trinity University Press, 2016

2016 INDIES Finalist (Ecology & Environment)
 

Awards

Academic

Literary

BSHS Small Conference Grant, April 2023
Society for the History of Natural History, Stearn Essay Prize, September 2020
Gates Cambridge Scholarship, 2020

Poetry & Nonfiction:

Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for Poetry, Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Connecticut Poetry Circuit, Academy of American Poets Prize, Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize, Albert Stanborough Cook Prize for Poetry, Norman Mailer College Poetry Prize & Writing Fellowship.

Journalism:

International Women’s Media Foundation, Adelante Fellowship, September 2018
Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, Guerry Beam Reporting Award, July 2018
Society of Environmental Journalists, Outstanding Beat Reporting, Honorable Mention, October 2017
Heinrich Böll Stiftung Fellowship in Climate & Energy, July 2017
Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, Upper Colorado Institute July 2017
National Tropical Botanical Garden Environmental Journalism Workshop, May 2017
Metcalf Institute’s 18th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, June 2016
Earth Journalism Network, Future Oceans Grant, November 2015