About

Maddie is a writer and editor based in San Francisco.

She writes about our relationship to nature and place, literary culture, people who shape their lives around food and farming, and the West.

Her work has also appeared in Grist, High Country News, HuffPost, Outside, the Rumpus, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her stories have won awards, been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and received support from the Middlebury Environmental Journalism Fellowship, the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship, the International Center for Journalists, and the National Press Foundation.

She is a senior editor at Mother Jones, where she edits features and the magazine’s culture section. For several years, she was the executive producer and co-host of Bite, a podcast for people who think hard about their food. Before that, she managed the magazine's research department and ran its fellowship program, training at least 60 journalists at the start of their careers.

She lives in San Francisco with her husband. In her free time, she inhales fiction, dances in a samba troupe, and hikes up mountains in the snow.