Sonner Kehrt is a journalist in California. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, WIRED Magazine, The Verge, Inside Climate News, and other publications, and was included on the 2020 Best American Essays notable list.
She has a masters in democracy and governance studies from Georgetown University and a masters of journalism from UC Berkeley, where her work won the school's Clay Felker Prize for Excellence in Longform Journalism. She's currently a lecturer at UC Berkeley, where she teaches courses in reporting, writing, and ethics.
Before journalism, she worked in support of arctic research as a Coast Guard officer, driving an 18,000 ton icebreaker across the polar icecap. She is a graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy.Carol Keeley's work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, New England Review, Arts & Letters, Oxford Poetry, Antioch Review, Chicago Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, The Chicago Tribune, New American Writing, Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. She won the 2019 Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She was a finalist for the 2017 Nelson Algren Award and a runner up in Zoetrope's fiction contest. Keeley was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart.
She has taught writing workshops at Columbia College and the University of Colorado. She has also taught at Naropa University and offers free writing workshops for veterans.
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