Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an...
Jennie Lay is a writer and editor who works from her off-the-grid log cabin at the rural edge of Steamboat Springs, a Colorado mountain community where skiing cowboys lured in ski bums and hot springs first enticed spa junkies more than a century ago. It wasn’t long after college that Jennie too was lured by these natural wonders and the boundless year-round adventures they provide. She came…and never left.
Jennie’s independent reporting and writing have covered energy, the environment, land conservation, sustainable living and eating, the nuclear West, wildlife, arts and culture, recreation and far flung travel. Her work appears in High Country News, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Scuba Diving, Yoga Journal, Wilderness, Ski Magazine, Telemark Skier, 5280 and other publications.
On assignment, she’s been scuba diving with sharks in Denver’s aquarium, raced go-karts against real-life race car drivers, learned to surf with female pros in Mexico, practiced yoga on the rooftops of Marrakech and skied the Great Sand Dunes. She has crafted portraits of reclusive Western policy makers, blown the whistle on gas drilling near an antiquated nuclear test site, cooked Slow Food with Moroccan housewives, explored the reefs of the Turks & Caicos and tracked reintroduced lynx through the Rockies. On her own time, she has honeymooned while trekking in Nepal and Tibet, danced her heart out in Guinean villages and explored wild and tropical paradises from India to Honduras, Vietnam to Hawaii. She spent a decade editing for Steamboat Magazine, a beautiful quarterly publication that looks at the environment, culture, politics and recreation in northwest Colorado. Before that, she covered the beats of arts, entertainment and rural county life for her hometown newspaper. She is currently a contributing editor at Steamboat Magazine, and the festival director for Literary Sojourn, one of the oldest and most exciting author festivals in the West.
Jennie earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California Berkeley. She earned a master’s in journalism, plus a graduate interdisciplinary certificate in environmental policy, from the University of Colorado Boulder. Before becoming a journalist, she clocked in as a land trust grant writer, radio DJ, concierge, camp counselor, and a strange array of seasonal jobs that allowed her all the advantages of living in a ski town and harboring a chronic travel bug.
Jennie’s passion for adventure is matched by her deep sense of awe for wild landscapes. And she’s pretty sure that nothing beats a good story that weaves it all together.
Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an...
Honoring Endangered Species Day in habitats near and far A multi-generational mashup of readers at my local library recently devoured a cli-fi novel. The...
Modern reading recommendations for nature lovers Influential Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf once said, “Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts...
Big ice. Big mountains. Big whales. Everything about Greenland is enormous. On the ground in East Greenland, a sense of awe bowled us over with each...
Last summer, encounters with the Greenland ice sheet made me cry. Twice. In August, I traveled to East Greenland—the remote part of the frozen expanse that...
By Jennie Lay Extinction is a pandemic. It’s not just species we’re losing every day. We’re also abandoning quiet spaces and undisturbed places. Perhaps...
A swan splashed down last spring in the lake near my cabin. Before that lone juvenile arrived, I had no clue swans flew through northwest Colorado’s mountain...
While it is one of the best times to see wild polar bears, late November isn’t exactly prime time for viewing the northern lights in Churchill, Manitoba....
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