Chris Colin’s most recent story is about living in total darkness. He has written about bureaucratic sludge, problematic billionaires, creepy river access wars, Japan's rent-a-friend industry, Obama's Irish roots, psychedelic first responders, endangered noodles, chimp filmmakers, George Bush’s pool boy, solitary confinement, people who get locked in Burger King bathrooms, insurgent Barbadian road tennis, a gay chorus’s tour of the Deep South, Covid memorialization and more for the Atlantic, NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, 99% Invisible, Pop-Up Magazine, Wired, Saveur,Outside, Alta, California Sunday and Mother Jones.
His work is featured in Best American Science & Nature Writing, and has won the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Features & Long-form Storytelling, and four Lowell Thomas awards. He's a contributing writer for Afar magazine.
About his latest book, Dave Eggers says, "For humanity to stay sane, this must be read like the Bible.” He's also the author of What to Talk About, with Rob Baedeker, as well as What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011. In 2015 he co-wrote This Is Camino, which was nominated for a James Beard Award.
He made José Andrés’s podcast (RIP), and he also makes music for podcasts — you should hire him to do that., he loves doing that.
During 2020 and 2021 he published Six Feet of Separation, a free pandemic publication by and for kids — “a virtual newspaper for our troubled times,” Dan Rather called it. Here’s an article about it. The paper’s editorial policy was Yes.
He lives in San Francisco with his kids and wife, who edits Ear Hustle, which is a great podcast you should listen to.