Justin Heinze is a Philadelphia based journalist, writer, long distance runner, and conservation advocate. He has a BA in English and History from St. Joseph’s University (2009), and is currently working on an MS in Environmental Studies at Green Mountain College. He served three terms of national service with Americorps in California, Arizona, and Montana, leading backcountry conservation crews and writing about the desert and the mountains. He has been a staff writer for the Northwest Florida Daily News and the University of Pennsylvania, and currently covers southeastern Pennsylvania for Patch. In 2013 he traveled to Africa to explore the Swahili coast and work on an organic farm and orphanage in Tanzania, experiences which he is chronicling in his first book, currently in-progress. His fiction has been published in Novelletum, Crimson and Gray, and Polyphony, among others. His hero is his father, an athlete, coach, poet, and outdoorsman who taught him how to dream.
Email: heinzejm@gmail.com
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