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Hannah Nordhaus has worked as a writer, editor, and historian for
the last 16 years, but her professional career dates back to 1975, when,
as a second grader, she won a "I'm Glad I Live In Washington D.C."
essay contest, took home a $50 savings bond and vowed to become a writer.
A full-time freelance writer since 2001, Hannah covers environmental and outdoor topics and writes general news and cultural pieces about the American West. Her stories have been published in The LA Times, The Financial Times, Outside, High Country News, Bicycling, The Village Voice, Ski Magazine, Powder Magazine, Wilderness, Hooked on the Outdoors Magazine, Rails-to-Trails Magazine, SF Weekly, and other publications. She also pens a regular outdoors column for the Denver Rocky Mountain News. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including Associated Press and California Newspaper Publishing Association awards for feature writing and business reporting. In 2008, an article she wrote for High Country News about the crisis in modern beekeeping, titled "The Silence of the Bees," won a special citation for the Stanford University John S. Knight Fellowship's James V. Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism. Said the judges, "The ease with which this piece puts pen to paper-and leaves lasting images in the reader's mind -- belies the enormous amount of work that went into her exceptional reporting." Hannah also works as an editor. She has been copy editor for Colorado
Homes and Lifestyles magazine since 2002, edits science and policy
reports for the Wilderness Society, and oversees the writing and production
of Kangri
News, the quarterly newsletter of the International Mountain Explorers
Connection, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting sustainable
tourism in developing mountain regions, with offices in Nepal, Tanzania,
Pakistan, and Boulder. She has also worked as copy editor for Gale Research's
Information Plus reference book series. Other recent editorial
clients include the International Mountain Bicycling Association and the
U.S. Forest Service. Hannah holds a Masters degree in History of the American West and Environmental
History. She has written profiles of Presidents Clinton, Bush, Carter,
McKinley and Buchanan for Gale Research's Presidential Administration
Profiles textbook, and produced an American Library Association reading
and essay series to accompany Ken Burns' "The West" documentary.
In addition, she has conducted oral history projects for the Rocky Flats
Cold War Museum, U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. 10th District
Court in Denver. She has also written four children's
books based on interviews with Tibetan refugees in northeastern Nepal.
Hannah received a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an M.A. in History of the American West and Environmental History from the University of Colorado. An avid skier and biker, she lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband Brent, daughter Delia, and little dog Roxie. |
