About

Kira Brooke Smith is a writer and political ecologist from central Pennsylvania, currently living and writing in Portland, Oregon.

She holds a Maters of Science in Geography from Portland State University and writes at the nexus of ecology, watershed health, and environmental justice.

Her essays and narrative nonfiction works have been featured in The Guardian Online, The Pointed Circle, Plain China Anthology, The Atticus Review, Five Points, Buckman Journal, and elsewhere.

Kira is currently a fall 2026 mentee with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, where she is working on her first essay collection, FLOODS.

Read a recent interview with Kira and her colleague on the Her Adventurous Life Substack.