Katherine LaGrave is an award-winning features writer and editor whose work has been recognized in The Best American Food Writing and The Best American Science & Nature Writing. She is currently a Deputy Editor at AFAR and an adjunct professor of journalism at Fordham University.
Selected Writing
Asma Khan Won’t Stop Shaking the World
A Sunday Long Read selection
The Greatest Traveler You’ve Never Heard Of
Longreads selection
It’s 2023. Do You Know Where Your Spices Come From?
Once Upon a Time in Central Florida
Longform selection
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Best of 2021, Longreads
A Very Big Little Country
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Longreads “Top Five” pick
Finders, Keepers
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The Power of Women in Travel
Waterworld
Best American Food Writing, 2021
Consider the Roadkill
Best American Science & Nature Writing, 2021 (notable)
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The “Flying Feminist” Who Was the First Woman to Design, Build, and Fly Her Own Plane
Longreads selection
Honky-Tonk Tokyo
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Journey to the Geographical Center of North America
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The God of Silence Speaks Up
Selected Editing
Something Like Healing, Something Like Hope
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The Otherworldly, Overwhelming, Oftentimes Unbelievable Natural Wonders of Oman
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Between the Lines
Queen of Clean
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The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism
Venice and Morris and Me
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A Man, a Dog, a Walk Around the World
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The Quest to Save the Pink Apples of Italy
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The Texas Riding Club Keeping Black Cowboy Culture Alive
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The Great Barrier Reef’s Great Big Complicated Story
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