About — Elodie Reed

I’m a Vermont-based audio journalist, writer and photographer, and currently work as the health equity reporter for Vermont Public. Bylines include The Atlantic, NPR and The Christian Science Monitor. I’ve previously been a staff reporter at several Northeast newspapers, including the Concord Monitor during the 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary. In 2019, I earned my MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University.

My work is often rooted in the communities that, through this country’s history and policy and culture, have been pushed to the margins. This approach is born out of growing up with a Christian Science worldview, and feeling lonely in knowing that most people did not share my experiences, or my belief that this physical world could not actually be real because it was not perfect like God. I no longer practice my childhood religion, though I have unending curiosity about what is actually real. And in my experience, the best way to learn about reality — to widen the keyhole through which we look out upon the world — is to get to know the lives least represented in our media, politics and institutions. My desire is to make all of us feel a little less lonely.