About
Katie Hill is a staff writer for Outdoor Life where she covers outdoor news, hunting, and conservation in the West. She was born and raised on the East Coast but relocated to Missoula, Montana, in 2019 to earn her master’s degree in environmental journalism. She still lives in Missoula.
Experience
Hill studied journalism in Boston, where her dream to become a beat writer for the Red Sox evolved into a passion for covering the environment and outdoor recreation after interning with the Appalachian Mountain Club’s magazine, AMC Outdoors. She also spent three summers working on a dude ranch in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains where she first realized she belonged in the West. After graduating, she relocated to Montana to pursue her master’s degree in environmental journalism. During her studies, she spent five weeks living out of her truck and driving from North Dakota to the Texas Gulf Coast to follow and write about the endangered whooping crane migration for her master’s project. Katie joined Outdoor Life in August 2022 after a 14-month stint as assistant editor at MeatEater. While she was there, she reported stories that explored everything from the illegal sale of endangered saiga antelope horns on Amazon to the complicated public access issues in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.
Education
Katie graduated from Emerson College with a B.S. in journalism and from the University of Montana with an M.A. in Environmental Science and Natural Resources Journalism.
