349: When a Story Idea Won’t Let a Writer Go - Interview with Jeremy Hance

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Jeremy Hance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeremy is writer and freelance environmental journalist, who also happens to cohabitate with mental illnesses. He has named his OCD Steve and his depression goes by the name of Malachi. He is the author of the memoir</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baggage: Confessions of a Globetrotting Hypochondriac.</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a journalist, Jeremy is passionate about wildlife conservation, climate change, forests, animal behavior, and indigenous people and many other topics. His work has appeared in Mongabay, the Guardian, HuffPost, Ensia, YaleE360, Sydney Morning Herald and others. His story on the Sumatran rhino was chosen for the 2019 edition of the</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best American Science and Nature Writing</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeremy has traveled to over 30 countries on five continents and considers himself ridiculously lucky to have spent time with singing rhinos, dinosaur mammals, and angry clown fish. He is graduate of Macalester College with a major in English and minor in History as well as the Great Books Master’s Degree program at St. John’s College. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife, daughter, and pooch. When he’s not writing, he enjoys time with friends, cups of tea, long hikes, longer naps, even longer novels, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Jeremy and I discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How he juggled writing about travel, mental illness, and nature in one book.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why he chose to write his memoir thematically as opposed to chronologically.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-leve