ABOUT

Journal of Skvader

I am a transsexual man, a writer, and a naturalist living in the Pacific Northwest. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Oregon State University with a degree in Natural Resources, concentrating in human dimensions and river hydrology with GIS. My undergraduate work was peer reviewed by hydrologist Lynette de Silva. I am the first in my family to graduate from a university.

I have over a decade of hands-on field experience in conservation and land management across six agencies, federal, state, county, city, and nonprofit. I have worked as a firefighter, park ranger, corpsmember, and public utility worker. I have spent years learning the names of things and what lives underneath the names of things.

I am a third generation Norwegian American. I live in the Pacific Northwest with my partner of thirteen years, a mechanical engineer and Berkeley alumni.

This journal exists because the body knows before the mind does. Because survival deserves a witness. Because I kept finding that the land held what language couldn’t, and I needed somewhere to put that down.

I am influenced by Barry Lopez and Robin Wall Kimmerer, writers who understood that the land is not backdrop but witness, and that attention paid to the natural world is never only about the natural world.

I write about transformation, survival, and naturalism through transsexual memoir and natural literature. It comes from the hands and the river.

The journal is named for the skvader. A rabbit with wings. Something that was never supposed to exist and does anyway.