His work takes multiple forms, from scholarly to literary to artistic. He is the coeditor of The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press), a hybrid field guide and literary anthology that has received several awards, including a 2016 Southwest Book of the Year and a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. In his research and creative work, he is particularly interested in environmental narratives, sense of place, and contemporary artistic and literary responses to environmental change.