Shane McGrath

What happens when you take a wild idea and chase it all the way down? You get a special kind of freedom.

I've been doing that for years in my own imperfect way: making records and bootstrap-touring the DIY indie and punk scene, training as a classical chef before I could legally drink, taking long meandering walks and solo trips to places that kept calling me back. Along the way came a sustainability degree and some unlikely jobs, from Fortune 500 operations to software, and I'm still curious about how things get made and how they move.

I'm Shane McGrath, and I write literary essays, memoir, and dispatches from the road about food, place, and the honest business of actually attempting things. The side quests. The slow roads.