Awards
“Whitty writes with humor, reverence, true curiosity and an unfettered imagination. ”
Books
The John Burroughs Medal Award for outstanding natural history
The PEN Hemingway Award runner up
The Kiriyama Prize
The Northern California Book Award (a winner & a finalist)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist
Orion Book Award finalist
Photo by Ian Riedel
Articles & Stories
The O. Henry Award
The Society of Environmental Journalists Award
The National Magazine Award (multiple winners & finalists)
The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
The Bernice Slote Award for Fiction
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award
Project Censored Award (twice)
“Extending ever smaller, deeper, broader, and richer, the ocean’s pelagic zone begins to embrace the properties of infinity. As you pause here, watching the largest of the small sail by, you might remind yourself that little of what is bathing you and buoying you is actually water; it’s almost all life.”