J.R. Sullivan

J.R. Sullivan is a contributing editor for Field & Stream. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Highlights

• Covers conservation, wildlife, and fly-fishing

• Currently writing a book for Knopf about theTennessee Valley Authority

Education

Sullivan attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he studied English.

Experience

Sullivan covered the Department of the Interior closely while on staff at Field & Stream, and wrote several long features, most notably “The Shipwreck of San Leon” and “The Vanishing.” In 2018, Sullivan—who remains a contributing writer for Field & Stream—left for Men’s Journal, where he wrote about, well, a bunch of stuff: feral hogs, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, hypercompetitive pinball players. His forthcoming book expands on a Men’s Journal story about a disaster at a TVA power plant.

F&S Lightning Round

Favorite Place to Fish: Blackfoot RiverFavorite F&S story: “Boxes” by Ted Trueblood, because it’s so odd and would never get published in print today. Bill Heavey’s “People of the Caribou” is also pretty good.

Notable Work

• Dirty Work

  Men's Journal

• Target Practice

  The New Yorker