Writing

Go to my Contently page or my extended list for more publications.

SELECTED ESSAYS

Blush and Rouge in the Grand Canyon: An Interview with Melissa L. Sevigny. Terrain.org.
May 17, 2023.

The End Is Nigh: Grief and the Big-Dam Era. Headwaters. March 14, 2023.

It’s Never Too Late to Save a River. Writers on the Range. November 14, 2022.

A Water-Stressed Valley Needs to Curb Development. Writers on the Range. May 23, 2022.

A Community of River Guides Copes with Loss. Writers on the Range. November 8, 2021.

Disappointment Was What I Needed: An Interview with Kathryn Wilder. Terrain.org. November 2021.

Coming or Going. That Thing with Feathers, Torrey House Press. April 29, 2020.

Beautiful Shards. High Desert Journal. November 1, 2019.

Birding the Burn. Audubon.org. January 9, 2018.

The Healing Power of Nature. Aeon. September 6, 2017.

How to Develop a Spiritual Connection to Water. The Wisdom Daily. April 3, 2017.

The Big Dam Era Is Not Over. Undark. July 26, 2016.

Midnight at the Oasis. Aeon. November 6, 2015.

Consistently Lovely. Hakai Magazine. October 23, 2015.

SELECTED CLIMATE FICTION

Tuolumne River Days. Everything Change II. Kim Stanley Robinson, ed. January 2019.

Evacuees. Wilmington, NC: Chautauqua. Issue 16, 2019.

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

“Becca Lawton.” Boatman’s Quarterly Review: The Journal of the Grand Canyon River Guides, Inc. Volume 35, Number 4. Winter 2022-2023.

Swimming Grand Canyon and Other Poems. Arizona Raft Adventures. January 24, 2022.

Shaped by Water with Author Rebecca Lawton. Culture and Ecology: Stories from the Confluence. April 9, 2020.

Steelies and Other Endangered Species by Rebecca Lawton. Necessary Fiction. November 9, 2015.

Environmental Writer Interviews: Rebecca Lawton. Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere. Hosted by Sarah Boon. June 22, 2015.