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IN PURSUIT OF A STORY, Kim O'Connell has stayed in a rustic, off-the-grid cabin on a remote island, made seed balls out of dredged harbor sediment, helped reconstruct a 1940s house inside the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and hiked across some of the most stunning and important national parks and historic sites.
Her writing appears in numerous national and regional publications on topics ranging from American history to landscape architecture to conservation and sustainability to parenting. Bylines have appeared in The New York Times, AARP, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Catapult, Mental Floss, Preservation, National Parks Traveler, Undark, Al Jazeera, Ladies Home Journal, Landscape Architecture, Virginia Living, Arlington, Washington Business Journal, and many more. She has served as an artist in residence at both Shenandoah National Park and Acadia National Park, where she researched astronomy tourism and the ways parks are regenerative for plants, animals, and people. Kim's essays about selective mutism, a lesser-known social anxiety disorder, have appeared in The Washington Post, Huffington Post Personal, Babble, Yahoo! News, and PsychologyToday.com, among other publications. She also teaches in the Johns Hopkins University Masters in Science Writing program, where she has facilitated workshops, taught courses in environmental and scientific literature, and co-led a writing residency in Bar Harbor, Maine. Kim is now working on a book about the history of foodways in Arlington, Virginia, where she lives, as well as a longform project about the Howard University crew team, the first all-Black rowing team in history. She is a co-host of The Gather, a podcast about rowing and life. In her spare time, Kim loves to read (she recently read two classics, Silent Spring and Middlemarch), go to concerts, and fire-pit with friends, but her favorite moments usually happen out on a mountain trail or at the beach with her husband and two kids. She lives in a historic neighborhood, where she is proud to have memorized her library card number. |
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