Spying on Animals | Communing with Nature | Traveling the World | Juggling Words
List your favorite activities. (Done.) Now, do them for a living. (In progress!) Jennifer Holland has her dream job. The science writer and author of a New York Times bestselling series about animals was a long-time senior staff writer and field reporter for National Geographic magazine; as a solo artist she continues to contribute to Nat Geo’s various publications and other magazines and websites while seeking her next book idea.
**NEWS FLASH**
DOG SMART
Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence
IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Find it on disneybooks.com or wherever books are sold. [Barnes&Noble, Amazon, Audible]
Holland’s new book investigates what it means to be intelligent in a dog’s world. Perfect for the canine-curious and anyone who appreciates great storytelling, fascinating science, and plenty of WOOF!
[Pub: National Geographic Books, 2024]
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Jennifer’s byline has also appeared in the magazines of The Nature Conservancy and the National Wildlife Federation, Hakai, and NG’s Kids and Explorer magazines, on Atlas Obscura, NPR, and the EarthTouch News Network, and in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among others. Applying her Master’s degree in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development, Jennifer scoops up writing assignments related to natural history, conservation/environment, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior, though anything one might call “quirky science” is within her bailiwick. (She also likes some people-oriented subjects–particularly those related to health and medicine. People are animals, too, after all.)
She calls her brand of fieldwork “cover my eyes and jump” reporting, or “just naive enough.” As a result Jennifer has flown in zero gravity over the Gulf of Mexico, dived with tiger sharks in the Bahamas and ducked below a reef-shark feeding frenzy on the Great Barrier Reef, shimmied up the tallest tree in Costa Rica, gone cobra hunting with a bare-handed Vietnamese farmer, camped on an active volcano in Hawaii, crawled into a bear’s den in northern Minnesota, and sat fireside with bushmen in Papua New Guinea learning to carve spears. Among other adventures.
Jennifer, with her snake-charmer husband and two dogs, divides her time between the D.C. area and a cabin in the woods near Charlottesville, Virginia.