Steve Featherstone | [email protected]

Steve Featherstone is the outdoors reporter for Syracuse.com. He covers everything from hunting and fishing to hiking and ecology. He received a dual bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and history in 1990, and a master’s degree in creative writing in 1996, both from Syracuse University. Prior to his position at Syracuse.com, he spent twenty years as a freelance magazine writer and photographer. His award-winning work has appeared in many national media outlets, including the New York Times Magazine, National Public Radio, and CNN, and has been featured in Best American Science & Nature Writing and exhibited at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. Featherstone has also taught writing at Syracuse University, University of Alabama, University of Kansas City-Missouri, LeMoyne College, and Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Past assignments have taken him from conflict zones in Afghanistan to forbidden zones in Chernobyl, but he’s happy finding adventures right here in Central New York.