About

My name is Chris Malloy, and I'm a writer covering food, culture, travel, technology, the environment, and anything that hooks me. I’ve blogged from farms I worked on in Italy, been an award-winning food critic, written about deep tech for startups, and covered climate change solutions. Today, I live and work in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert.

Though I write a range of nonfiction, my specialty is feature writing. I’m most at home at home far from home, telling immersive stories about great challenges and people on quests that take them to the bounds of human experience.

For stories, I’ve shadowed foragers in the Rocky Mountains and cracked city alleys. I’ve sipped lager at an experimental Mexican barbecue, witnessed a quest to brew wild ale overnight in a forest, and hiked to a lost mountain orchard with a cider-making scientists. I’ve toured arid farms revitalizing ancient crops, visited dead and dying rivers, studied blockchain and solar energy, and gone hunting with Apaches.

I’ve written for The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and about two dozen others. These days, I take on a few select freelance projects per year.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Society for Features Journalism, Food Feature (2020 and 2019)

• Best of the West, Special Topic Column Writing (2020)

• Association of Food Journalists, Newspaper Feature (2019)

• Arizona Press Club: Arts Reporting (2018, 2020-21); Arts Criticism (2020-21)

• Best American Science & Nature Writing (2022)

Contact

You can reach me at chrisamalloy[at]gmail.com.