Writing

Go to my Contently page or my résumé for more publications.

SELECTED ESSAYS

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.

Loss and Renewal and Through the Flames. Pepperwood Preserve. November 2017.

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

Giving In. Hunger Mountain: The VCFA Journal for the Arts. March 23, 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.

The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West. Radio Book Club. October 9, 2019.

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.