Carson Vaughan is a freelance journalist and the author of Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside and more. He's currently working on his second book, a travelogue through the Nebraska Sandhills, for W.W. Norton & Company.

For links to more of Carson's outstanding work please go to https://www.carsonvaughan.com/home