Nicholas Triolo is Orion’s Digital Strategist and Online Editor.
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Behind the Cover: Margot Glass, Dandelion
Orion’s Summer 2019 cover has become a hit, and it wasn’t even trying. The illustration is of a dandelion, what many consider a weed, ordinary flora, overlooked and under-appreciated for its Continue reading
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Eight Questions for the Author: Bryce Andrews, Down from the Mountain
Our Spring 2019 issue featured a hair-raising article, “The Edge of the Stand,” about following—or being followed by—a hungry grizzly bear at the edge of a Montana cornfield. This complicated relationship Continue reading
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Questions for the Artist: Nikki McClure
Every issue of Orion includes a poetry broadside bound into the back cover, illustrated by a different artist each year. Orion is honored that Nikki McClure, a papercut artist living in Continue reading
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Nine Questions for the Author: Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal
Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and long-time public lands activist. Her work has appeared in Orion, High Country News, High Desert Journal, Rock & Ice, and Red Rock Testimony—an anthology Continue reading
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Nine Questions for the Author: Krista Schlyer, “Sacrificial Land”
With the partial federal government shutdown reaching into its second month, we contacted journalist and photographer Krista Schlyer to learn more about the ecological realities along the US-Mexico border. In the Continue reading