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Alexandra Marvar a freelance journalist and birder whose work has appeared in print in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Believer, Wall Street Journal Magazine, and elsewhere. She spent her growing up years in Ohio farms and suburbs (and woods and NASCAR tracks), studied anthropology at Vassar College and documentary photography at the Salt Institute, hitchhiked across northern Spain before phones had maps on them, started her career in magazines at Condé Nast, and met her husband at a film festival in Savannah, Georgia. She now lives seven minutes from the house where Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and 14 minutes from the house where Edith Wharton wrote House of Mirth in the Massachusetts Berkshires.
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
It’s a main character in every story.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
Thriving ecosystems are dynamic—so what kind of contribution we need to make, and what kind of nourishment we should be able to sustain ourselves with, are going to be ever in flux. Change is the nature of things. Being part of a thriving ecosystem means tuning in and evolving with it.
