About

Maddie is a writer and editor based in San Francisco.

She writes about science, business, our relationship to nature and place, literature, culture, and the American West.

Her work has also appeared in Grist, High Country News, Outside, the Rumpus, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her stories have won awards, been featured on All Things Considered and 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. She’s worked on stories that have won James Beard Awards and National Magazine Awards, among others. 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 and two kids.