Sierra Crane-Murdoch

Contributing Editor / Freelance Journalist

I am a journalist based in the Intermountain West. I cover the environment, energy, health, indigenous issues, race, and mountain culture, formerly as a correspondent, and now as a contributing editor for High Country News. I'm a 2013 National Health Journalism Fellow, as well as a recent Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre Program in Literary Journalism. For samples of my work, please visit www.sierramurdoch.com.

Articles

Fallon's Deadly Legacy

In a small Nevada town once plagued by childhood cancer, families still search for answers to what caused the cluster of cases. Some suspected environmental causes, but so little is still understood about pollutants and cancer.

Rethinking the "Cancer-Cluster Myth"

The site of the most significant childhood cancer cluster on national record can shed light on why epidemiology and other scientific inquiries into environmental health problems rarely secure regulatory change or care for those impacted.