Christopher has been a freelance writer for more than 20 years and has published in Harper’s, CounterPunch, National Geographic, Hustler, Penthouse, the New York Times, Pacific Standard, Sierra, Earth Island Journal, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Salon, and many other websites and newspapers large and small.

His book This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West is a product of those years in the last wild places. He currently lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York.