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Bio
Bill Donahue
I'VE BEEN WORKING AS A WRITER SINCE 1987. My stories are narrative, and frequently they aim to tell larger cultural tales—about global warming, say, or the weird rise of reality television—as they zero in on specific true-life characters. For publications ranging fromThe Atlantic and The New Yorker to DoubleTake, Mother Jones, and Outside, I’ve been lucky enough to go on reporting adventures all over the world. Over the years, I have kayaked through the concrete drainage ditch that is the Los Angeles River; ridden all-terrain-vehicles with hardened criminals through the stripmined hills of West Virginia; searched for fallen meteorites in the Sahara Desert; biked the streets of Shanghai; snuck into Manuel Noriega’s abandoned beach house in Panama; and swum along the coast of California with the world’s premier cold water distance swimmer. Two of my stories have been nominated for a National Magazine Award. My work has also been reprinted in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Travel Writing, and other anthologies. I teach journalism at The Attic Writers' Workshop in Portland. With my daughter, Allie, I am a co-editor of biff, the magazine for kids and their parents.
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