About
Chris Malloy
I'm a writer covering food, culture, innovation, tech, and more. These days, I live in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, but I prefer to move.
My specialty is feature writing. I'm most at home far from home, telling stories about great challenges and people on epic quests. I follow my natural curiosity and take an immersive approach.
For stories, I've shadowed a quest to brew beer overnight in a forest, hiked to a forgotten frontier-era orchard with biologists, and followed urban foragers down city alleys. I've toured farms revitalizing ancient crops, visited dead and dying rivers, studied digital assets and solar energy, harvested saguaro fruit with the Tohono O'odham, and gone hunting with Apaches.
I've written for Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Saveur, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and many others. Thanks for swinging by for a read. Hope you enjoy.
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Me, off the main path
- Fluent enough in Italian to argue about cards
- Met my wife on a side street in Rome
- Planted, hoed, and harvested at four farms in Italy
- Can roll a few dozen kinds of pasta
- Have graduate degrees in law and food studies
- Helped build the future at four tech startups
- I've photographed a bunch of my stories
- Outnumbered at home, three kids to two adults
Awards & Recognition
8 wins
- Best American Science & Nature Writing
- Society for Features Journalism — Food Feature×2
- Arizona Press Club — Arts Reporting×2
- Arizona Press Club — Arts Criticism
- Best of the West — Special Topic Column Writing
- Association of Food Journalists — Newspaper Feature
For Editors
Open to select assignments.
- Words and pictures.
- Often reporting camera in hand. My photographs have run in Bloomberg, Saveur, The Boston Globe, and many others.
- From Philly, based in the Sonoran Desert.
- The Southwest on short notice, farther afield with lead time.
- Reporting in C1 Italian.
- On the autostrada, in giro, and off the grid every summer. Catch me at the lido and agriturismo.
What I'm drawn to
The past, present, and future of food. Innovation and solutions. Fringe cultures and interesting spaces. Adventure. Epic quests. People pouring their souls into one thing.
chrisamalloy@gmail.com