Jeff Gailus

Location:

Canmore, Alberta

Styles:

Blogging, Brochures, Case studies, Columns, Copywriting: New Media, Copywriting: Print, Essays, Features, Ghostwriting, Investigative Reporting, Personal Journalism, Profiles, Promotional copy, Proposals, Reports/Whitepapers, Social media, Web

Subjects:

Adventure, Animals (Pets), Books & literature, Culture & community, Earth sciences, Education, Energy, Environment, Family & parenting, Fisheries and oceans, Forestry, Information & communication technologies, Law & crime, Leisure goods & activities, Life sciences, Men, Minerals, metals & mining, Natural Resources, New media, Non-profit, Oil & gas, Politics, Recreation & leisure, Science & technology, Society, Travel & tourism, Wilderness & wildlife

Bio:

For the past 15 years, Jeff Gailus has been writing about science, nature and the people and politics that determine its fate. An award-winning writer from Calgary, Alberta, he is the author of The Grizzly Manifesto (Rocky Mountain Books, 2010) and numerous magazine articles. He has also worked with a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, David Suzuki Foundation, Natural Resources Defence Council, TELUS World of Science — Calgary, and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

His work has been acknowledged for a number of awards, including Story of the Year from the Associated Collegiate Press, numerous nominations for magazine feature writing at the western Canada and national levels, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He also received a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship, awarded each year to support “future conservation leaders.”

He has taught writing at both the University of Oregon and the University of Montana, where he completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Studies. He currently lives in Canmore, Alberta.