BJ(Hons) (Vind), MLitt (St. Andrews)
Lyndsie Bourgon, FRCGS, is a journalist, author and oral historian. She graduated from the University of King’s College with a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) in 2008.
Lyndsie is a National Geographic Explorer, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Explorers Club. She has experience reporting and conducting fieldwork in rural areas including Haida Gwaii, the Peruvian Amazon and the California redwoods, and she writes for publications including the Guardian, The Atlantic, the New York Times, The Walrus, and Canadian Geographic. Lyndsie’s book, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods, was nominated for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non-Fiction, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize at Columbia University, and a BC and Yukon Book Prize.
As an oral historian, Lyndsie has conducted interviews and managed projects in the Shetland islands, Odenwald forest, and Indigenous communities in northern Alberta, British Columbia and northern Ontario.
Interests
Interviewing ethics, oral histories, trauma-informed reporting, rural and remote reporting, investigative and archival research, environmental history, experiences of climate change and deindustrialization, and the art of narrative nonfiction.
