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Jeremy Miller lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has appeared in magazines and newspapers such as Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Economist, Outside, Wired, TIME, Orion, The New York Times, The Guardian, Pacific Standard and many others. He is also a contributing writer at Sierra Magazine. He has served as a media fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University and as a fellow in environmental journalism at Middlebury College.
He is currently at work on his first book, Into the Dark Sky: Journeys with the Meteorite Hunters, Stargazers, Astrophotographers, and Desert Nomads Striving to Save the Night Sky (Liveright)
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
The natural world informs every aspect of my work, from the ecosystems that define it, to the rich cast of characters–human and non-human–that inhabit it. It provides not only the backdrop for my stories but the action. To me, nature is to writing as air is to breathing.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
Thriving ecosystems are vanishing across the globe. Every year you must search a little harder, hike a little further, climb a little higher to find them. But once you arrive you understand what we stand to lose if we can’t learn to curb our excesses. From these increasingly rare and threatened places, we can truly see what our way of life is costing us.
