Ben Goldfarb

Author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers & Why They Matter (Chelsea Green).

Ben Goldfarb is a journalist, editor, and Beaver Believer. He is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and named one of the best books of 2018 by the Washington Post. He is also the recipient of a 2019 Alicia Patterson Fellowship, through which he will be covering the global ecological impacts of roads.

Ben’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Science, The Washington Post, National Geographic, the New York Times, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The Guardian, High Country News, Outside Magazine, Smithsonian, Pacific Standard, Audubon Magazine, Boston Magazine, Scientific American, OnEarth, Yale Environment 360, Grantland, Earth Island Journal, The Nation, Hakai Magazine, Conservation Magazine, Ensia, Modern Farmer, VICE News, The Last Word on Nothing, and other publications.

Previously, Ben edited and coordinated the Solutions Journalism Network‘s “Small Towns, Big Change” project, an award-winning multi-newsroom collaborative that produced solutions-oriented coverage of social and environmental issues. He also served as editor-in-chief of Sage Magazine, award-winning environmental publication at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. And from 2014 to 2016 he worked as a correspondent for the western magazine High Country News.

Ben’s fiction has appeared in publications including Motherboard, Moss, the Bellevue Literary Review, the Allegheny Review, and The Hopper, which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize in 2017. His non-fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing and Cosmic Outlaws: Coming of Age at the End of Nature. He holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is happiest with a scuba tank strapped to his back or a fly rod in his hand.