John Moir is an award-winning author and environmental journalist whose special interest is the preservation of biodiversity.

Moir’s dramatic nonfiction book, Return of the Condor, was a finalist for the 2008 William Saroyan International Writing Prize from Stanford University and was also selected as one of the five best pieces of science journalism in 2007 by the National Association of Science Writers. His Smithsonian magazine article, “Condors in a Coal Mine,” was the Grand Prize Winner for the 2009 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.

Moir has written on a multitude of topics and his many articles have appeared in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Smithsonian, Birder's World, Orion, Audubon California, High Country News, Birding, Outside, Poets and Writers, and elsewhere.

Moir is the author of two nonfiction books, has contributed to three anthologies, and has won 19 writing awards. He is a staff writer for the National Science Teachers Association and is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, National Association of Science Writers, Authors Guild, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and a Founding Fellow in the International League of Conservation Writers. He belongs to the American Birding Association and has traveled the world in search of birds. Moir is also a docent naturalist at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Click here for a wide-ranging interview with John in Writer’s Digest magazine.