Christian Martin (moontrolling)

Christian Martin is a freelance writer and editor, educator and backcountry-enthusiast based in the northwest corner of Washington State. Christian graduated with a Bachelor's degree in the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington in 1994 and a Master's degree in English, with an emphasis on creative nonfiction, nature writing and ecocriticism, from Western Washington University in 2000. He has a 20-year history of publishing, including pieces in Sierra Magazine, The Georgia Review, High Country News, Science & Spirit, Jackson Hole News & Guide (WY), The Source Weekly (OR), Anchorage Press (AK), The Every Other Weekly, Bellingham Weekly, Whatcom Watch, Chinook Observer, Cascadia Weekly, University of Washington Daily, Glass Onion (all WA), ISLE: The Journal for the Study of Literature and the Environment and other publications. He has also recently been featured on the websites Crosscut.com and TheWritersWorkshopreview.net.In addition to his steady diet of environmental journalism, book reviewing, travel/outdoors stories and feature writing, Christian has interviewed dozens of interesting well-known personalities over the years, including writers, painters, scientists, photographers, musicians, environmental activists, politicians and others.Christian served as the features editor of the Bellingham Weekly for three years and as an English instructor at Whatcom Community College for five, where he taught courses on "sense of place" and nature literature, the history of environmental ethics in America, memoir writing and a unique class that linked the study of biology with literature and composition. Christian currently serves as the communications coordinator for North Cascades Institute, a venerable nonprofit environmental education organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of Northwest environments through education.