Sam Keck Scott

Sam Keck Scott is a freelance writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is a regularly featured author and photographer on the National Geographic Society Blog, a 2016 Writing By Writers Fellow, and the co-author of the best-selling environmental children’s book, Sip the Straw. Sam’s work has won the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction; been a finalist in the Machigonne Story Contest; earned honorable mention in Glimmer Train; and has appeared in Harpur Palate, The New Guard Literary Review, The Earth First! Journal, and Nautique Magazine. In addition to writing, Sam is a terrestrial and marine biologist, a conservationist, and an avid adventurer. When not living out of his truck or a hotel room for work — or exploring some far-flung land or sea — Sam lives in an Airstream trailer tucked between two dilapidated chicken coops in rural Sonoma County, in Northern California. Learn more about Sam here: https://www.samkeckscott.net/bio/