About

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

She works 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, and Buckman Journal.

She holds a Maters of Science in Geography from Portland State University, is an alumnus of Signal Fire Arts and Portland Community College’s Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. Her writing has received funding from the Regional Arts and Cultural Center.

Kira is currently at work on her first essay collection, Floods.

Read a recent interview with Kira and her colleague, Amy van Riessen in the Her Adventurous Life Substack.