Hello and welcome! This site offers a portfolio of my nonprofit communications work, award-winning journalism, and creative writing.

My advocacy writing, reportage, poetry, and personal essays have been published in newspapers and literary journals across the country including the Washington Post, Boston Globe Magazine, Denver Post, and Salamander. The work often involves elements of the local environment, personal exploration, and interesting characters. Whether it’s a news article or purely fiction, there’s always some creativity – memorable narratives and metaphors don’t write themselves!

I’m currently a communications and media relations consultant for Scenic Hudson, one of New York’s largest environmental advocacy organizations. Before that, I did the same consulting work for Worker Justice Center of New York, which advocates for equity for farmworkers and other low-wage workers while providing support services to survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence. And before that, I was a media relations specialist for the Center for Biological Diversity, a national environmental nonprofit organization which works to protect endangered species in the U.S. and internationally.

Working with these fantastic, essential nonprofits has given me the opportunity to ghostwrite articles for their staff experts which have been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, and dozens of other national and regional news outlets.

Before making the transition into full-time nonprofit work, I covered the environment and sustainability as a staff writer for the Portland Business Journal in Oregon. I also spent a decade as a freelance writer for the Boston Globe and Globe Magazine. For serious features, one of my long-form articles dissected the rollout of Obamacare and what could be learned from the success of universal healthcare in Massachusetts. On the lighter side, I wrote about hiking New Hampshire’s tallest mountains in the worst of New England’s winter weather; a lawyer who wants to make medical marijuana work in Massachusetts; and the wine tastings, light opera, and beaches to visit during a day on Cape Cod.

On the creative side, some good friends and I founded the White Whale Review several years back, an online literary journal that has published writers like Liam Callanan, Rachel Hadas, and Joyce Peseroff, where I served as poetry editor for nearly four years before moving on. And I’ve had some of my own creative writing published here and there. Here are more links to my creative and professional works: travel writing, magazine, and news articles from the Boston Globe here and Globe Sunday Magazine; and poetry from Amethyst Arsenic, Somerville News, and Fox Chase Review.

At the moment, I live in New York’s Hudson Valley with my partner and family. You can find me hiking, with a coffee or a single malt, or @jcroninwrites on Twitter.