Krista Schlyer
Krista is a photographer and writer working throughout North America and the Caribbean Sea. Krista is a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers and winner of the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, National Outdoor Book Award, and Vision Award from the North American Nature Photographers Association.
Contact Krista: kris_schly@yahoo.com or use the form at the bottom of this page.
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NANPA Environmental Impact Award
NANPA Vision Award, 2015
Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography
American Library Association "Best of the Best"
New Mexico Book Award
Eric Hoffer Award
Southwest Book of the Year
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BBC Wildlife Magazine
Defenders Magazine
National Wildlife Magazine
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Newsweek
NBC
National Geographic
NPR's The 1a
The Kojo Nnamdi Show
BBC News
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Photography: Wildlife, underwater, drone, video, landscape, macro, aerial
Writing: magazines, books, web content
Exibits
Public speaking
Coaching
Hiking, Sailing, Scuba diving, Free diving
Conservation strategy
BACKGROUND
Since obtaining a master’s degree in journalism in 1997, Krista has been contributing stories and photography to magazines, books and websites, including BBC, National Parks, Defenders, High Country News, Audubon, and The Nature Conservancy. Her stories and other publications have focused on wildlife like the desert tortoise, bison, prairie dog, and larger environmental issues including climate change, wildlife migration corridors and urban waterways.
Krista’s work has been largely focused around landscape level conservation projects where the impacts of government policy have longterm impacts on wildlife, environmental health and human communities. Her projects have included a 15-year project on the US-Mexico borderlands; a 10-year project on the Anacostia River watershed in Washington DC; and a newer 3-year project on the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
Krista is the author of 3 books including, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, which has received national recognition, including the National Outdoor Book Award for 2013 and the “Best of the Best” designation from the American Library Association. In 2015, Krista published a memoir, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks and Nonsense, and in 2018 she published River of Redemption: Almanac of Life on the Anacostia, winner of the 2019 National Outdoor Book Award.
