I am a freelance writer and journalist living on the west coast of Scotland. I work for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The BBC, The Atlantic and Granta.

My Fellowship involved travel throughout Alaska, telling the human stories behind the rapidly changing arctic, exploring the impacts of climate change and resource extraction. I had been working on issues surrounding climate change, as both an activist and journalist, for many years, and the Fellowship gave me the chance to see how people were being affected on the front line.

One of the stories that I uncovered in Alaska, and wrote about for The Atlantic, about how the disappearance of the salmon was altering the lives of the Yup'ik people, led directly to my first book. The Kings of the Yukon was published by Penguin in May 2018, and it tells the story of a four-month canoe trip across Alaska, examining the decline of the king salmon and exploring how that decline is impacting on the many communities, and the ecosystems, which depend on it. The book won both the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the Lonely Planet Stanfords Adventure Travel Book of the Year.