Alec Loorz is a writer, photographer, activist, and wild storyteller. He has spent years in apprenticeship with wild spaces, and those on the edge, and he is deeply drawn by the mystery of the living earth.

Loorz’s early background was as a public speaker and youth climate activist. Throughout his teens he spoke to over 500,000 people at schools, environmental events, UN conferences, and many other venues. He organized the international “iMatter March” and was the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the US government on behalf of the atmosphere and our future, the first of its kind.

By age 18, Loorz was burnt out, and he left the world of climate activism entirely. He ended up living in Olympia, Washington for five years, and there fell in love with the shorelines, rivers, mountains, and edgelands of the Pacific Northwest. He was gifted a collection of significant encounters with animals and other wildernesses (along with nearly a million photos), and his work has since become about sharing these stories, and seeking out and listening to other places in transition.

In 2021, Loorz moved to Canada to unite with his partner, Slater Jewell-Kemker. They are now happily married and making a life for themselves on a farm in Southern Ontario. They are building community, growing a food forest, and falling in love ever more deeply with the fields and woods and rivers and edgelands and gardens around them, and all their co-inhabitants.