Author Biography
Justin Nobel was born in New York City and received a dual master's degree in earth science and journalism from Columbia University. He worked at a newspaper in northern California then traveled to the Canadian Arctic, where he lived among the Inuit, and later, Micronesia, where he lived on the island of Yap. His writing has appeared in Time, Popular Mechanics, Tin House, Orion, Audubon, Guernica and Meatpaper and his essay, The Last Inuit of Quebec was included in Best American Travel Writing 2011 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He pens a blog called Digital Dying for the funeral information website, Funeralwise.com. A second blog, the Absurd Adventurer, in which he sat for extended amounts of time in iconic New York City spots observing minutiae is the basis for his book, Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle. Justin lives with his inamorata, Karen LeBlanc, a designer and musician, in Arabi, Louisiana. He's presently at work on the second book in his Places trilogy, a collection of stories about the South.
