Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in climate, the outdoors, environment, science, health, and culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Sierra, National Geographic, Backpacker, Sunset, 5280 (Denver's city magazine), Grist, Mountain Outlaw, and more. She is Backpacker's Rocky Mountain Editor and wrote the last four editions of Frommer's Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks travel guides. She also served as deputy editor of the print edition of Outside Business Journal and as an adjunct professor of environmental journalism at the University of Montana. Elisabeth holds a Master's degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, where she earned both the prestigious McCormick Scholar designation and the Harrington Memorial Award.
Elisabeth's work has taken her from the broad shoulders of Chicago to Boulder, Seattle, and Montana, with many stops in between. She has reported on neuroscience research from a Utah canyon, the lives of off-the-grid professors in northern Wisconsin, wilderness survival techniques, the health benefits of quiet places, worm composting in a small apartment, and the rodeo cowboys of northwestern Colorado. On the multimedia side, Elisabeth has also produced four educational documentaries for teens as a senior editor with Human Relations Media. When she's not scaling peaks in pursuit of a story, Elisabeth loves cooking, paddling, cross-country skiing, and Forest Service cabins.
Elisabeth's work has taken her from the broad shoulders of Chicago to Boulder, Seattle, and Montana, with many stops in between. She has reported on neuroscience research from a Utah canyon, the lives of off-the-grid professors in northern Wisconsin, wilderness survival techniques, the health benefits of quiet places, worm composting in a small apartment, and the rodeo cowboys of northwestern Colorado. On the multimedia side, Elisabeth has also produced four educational documentaries for teens as a senior editor with Human Relations Media. When she's not scaling peaks in pursuit of a story, Elisabeth loves cooking, paddling, cross-country skiing, and Forest Service cabins.
