Donovan Hohn

is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, Hopwood Awards in essay and poetry, and a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Outside, among other publications. Moby-Duck was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Prize for Excellence in Journalism and runner-up for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A former features editor of GQ and contributing editor of Harper’s, Hohn is now a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he has begun work on a second book.

 

photo by Beth Chimera

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS



“Walden of the Wildfire,”

Review of Philip Connors Fire Season,

New York Times Sunday Book Review, April 8, 2011


“Lost Symbols,”

Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2011


“The Unseen Currents,”

Popular Science, March 2011


“A Super Bowl Spot for Uncle Sam: Can Madison Avenue Make Us Love Our Government?”

Harper’s, February 2011


“Monsterwellen,”

Outside, January 2009


“Through the Open Door: Searching for Deadly Toys in China’s Pearl River Delta,”

Harper’s Magazine, August 2008


“Sea of Trash,”

The New York Times Magazine, June 22, 2008


“Falling: Confessions of a Lapsed Forest Christian,”

Harper’s Magazine, April 2008


“Snail Picking,”

Brevity: 27, May 2008


“Moby-Duck; or, The Synthetic Wilderness of Childhood,”

Harper’s Magazine, January 2007


“A Romance of Rust: Nostalgia, Progress, and the Meaning of Tools,”

Harper’s Magazine, January 2005


“Anatomy Lessons: Evan S. Connell and the Documentary School,”

Harper’s Magazine, January, 2001


Two Poems,  Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2004


“Fleurs du Mal: Thorny Truths About the Global Flower Trade,”

Harper’s Magazine, February 2000


“Near-Death Experiences,”

a short story, Agni, Spring 1995

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