About — Elodie Reed

I’m a Vermont-based writer, photographer, audio producer and journalist. I currently work as the Communications Manager for University of Vermont Extension. Bylines include The Atlantic, NPR, The World, Ecotone and The Christian Science Monitor. I’ve previously been a staff reporter at Vermont Public and 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, policy and culture, have been pushed to the margins. I listen to and collaborate with community members in order to: hold power to account; provide useful information; and tell artful, honest stories in which community members can see themselves reflected.

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.