About Us

Sierra is the storytelling arm of the Sierra Club, the United States’ oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental group. We are a national print and digital magazine publishing award-winning journalism and cutting-edge photography, art, and video dedicated to protecting the natural world. Combining features on green living and outdoor adventure with reporting about threats to the environment, Sierra brings together leading journalists, photographers, and filmmakers to convey the ideals at the heart of the Sierra Club’s mission.

Sierra is the modern version of the original Sierra Club Bulletin, created by famed naturalist John Muir in 1893, one year after founding the Sierra Club. Today, the magazine publishes quarterly in print and every day online. We reach 1 million readers across North America with every print edition and hundreds of thousands more online.


Submission Guidelines
If you are interested in submitting editorial or photographic materials to Sierra, please consult our guidelines for submission.


Awards and Distinctions
Sierra magazine regularly publishes original award-winning journalism, photography, and illustration in print and online. We are proudly the home of vanguard eco-literary journalism and investigative stories that lead to real change.

2024

  • Isobel Whitcomb's "Homeward Bound," first published in Sierra magazine in the Winter 2023 issue, was selected for the 2024 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing—the second year in a row that their reporting for Sierra was selected for the esteeemed publication, and the third year in a row that a Sierra magazine story was selected. 

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Edward Humes's "You Can't Recycle Garbage," originally published in Sierra magazine, won the Maggie Award for Best Feature Article for the 68th Annual Maggie Awards.
  • Photographer Robyn Twomey's work documenting the lives of single-mother military veterans, originally commissioned for a feature article in Sierra magazine (Katie O'Reilly's "Scenes From a Camping Trip for Single-Mother Military Veterans"), is selected to appear in the American Photography 35 annual award book.

2018

Sierra magazine won three Maggie Awards for the 67th Annual Maggie Awards, as follows:

In addition:

2017

  • Sierra magazine was a finalist in the multimedia category for Media Industry Newsletter (MIN) magazine's multimedia feature category (MIN is now part of Folio magazine).

2014

  • "Artist or Activist: In Africa, Nick Brandt Assembles an Anti-Poaching Army" won an Ozzie Award for Best Cover Design.

2013

  • "Gust Junkies" won a Maggie Award for Best Series of Editorial Photographs/Consumer.

2012

  • "Kick Coal, Save Jobs, Right Now" won a Society of Publication Designers Merit Award for the Best Illustration/Single Spread.
  • March/April issue won a Folio magazine's Silver Eddie Award for the best full issue by an association/nonprofit publishing six issues per year.
  • "High Art" won a Maggie Award for Best Series of Editorial Photographs/Consumer.
  • "High Art won a Maggie Award for Best Single Editorial Photograph/Consumer.
  • "Sound Off" won a Society of American Travel Writer's Environmental Tourism Award (Bronze).
  • "Make Light" won a Maggie Award for Best Feature Article/Consumer.
  • "The Cost of Coal" won a Maggie Award for Best News Story/Consumer.
  • "Wilderness Diplomacy" won a Print's 2012 Regional Design Annual Award.

2011

  • "Look, It's a Cheatercycle" won a Maggie Award for Best Single Editorial Illustration/Consumer.

2010

  • "View From the Vortex" won a Maggie Award: Best Series of Editorial Photographs/Consumer.

2009

  • "King Coal in Court" won a Maggie Award for Best Single Editorial Illustration/Consumer.
  • "Innovate" won a Maggie Award for Best Regularly Featured Department, Section, or Column/Consumer.

2007

  • "Smart Energy Solutions"won a Maggie Award for Best Series of Articles/Consumer.
  • "Ways & Means" won a Maggie Award for Best Regularly Featured Department, Section, or Column/Consumer.
  • "A Patriotic Pall" won a Maggie Award for Best Single Editorial Illustration/Consumer.

2006

  • "Photography of Hope" won a Maggie Award for Best Black-and-White or Two-Color Editorial Layout/Trade & Consumer.
  • "Photography of Hope" won a Maggie Award for Best Series of Editorial Photographs/Consumer.
  • "A Real Refuge" won a Canada's Northern Lights Awards First Prize.

2005

  • "American Idylls" won a Maggie Award for Best Public Service Series or Article.
  • "Madame Butterfly" won an American Society of Journalists and Authors Best Profile Award.

2004

  • "Wild America" won a Maggie Award for Best Special Theme Issue.
  • "Bull Elk" won an Apogee Award for Excellence in Still Photography.

2002

  • "Ode to the Bus" won a Maggie Award for Best Signed Editorial or Essay.
  • "Election 2002" won a Maggie Award for Best Public Service Series or Article.

2000

  • "Night Ride" won a Maggie Award for Best Single Editorial Illustration.
  • "Canada's Forgotten Coast" won a Maggie Award for Best Public Service Series or Article.
  • "The Legacy of Lewis & Clark" won a Maggie Award for Best Public Service Series or Article.

Staff

Editorial
Jason Mark, Editor in Chief
Rachel Griffiths, Art Director
Jonathan Hahn, Managing Editor
Paul Rauber, Senior Editor
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Poetry Editor
Lindsey Botts, Digital Editor
Julia Sklar, Story Editor
Suki Gear, Copy Chief
Jessica Meskus, Senior Associate Art Director
Nikki Kahn, Photo Editor

Finance and Operations
Gary Reinecke, Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Amy Santana, Production and Digital Engagement Manager

Address Changes
For subscription inquiries, contact Sierra Club Member Services, 415-977-5653. For address changes: Send old and new addresses and a Sierra address label to Sierra Club Member Care, 2101 Webster St., Suite 1300, Oakland, CA 94612; email address.changes@sierraclub.org.