My reporting has also been awarded a National Press Foundation Fellowship for Food and Agriculture reporting, as well as time at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and Tin House Writing Conference. I also serve as a Guild Hall Artist-in-Residence from 2022 - 2024, working with Bridgehampton Union Free School District on a narrative writing workshop focusing on nature.
Growing up in a small town, community is important to me. I am the Captain of Southampton Village Ocean Rescue, a volunteer emergency responder group on the Atlantic Ocean. I also serve on Southampton Village Climate Action Committee, where I created the town’s first historical bike route; and Beit Al Atlas, a community house board in Lebanon.
I am an Ocean Reporting Fellow with the Pulitzer Center, covering the American seaweed industry for Civil Eats. An environmental journalist from Long Island, New York, my work is featured in the New York Times, the Guardian and Outside Magazine. I also host the television program "South Fork Sea Farmers" on LTV-EH.
In 2022-2023, I was awarded a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan and studied how aquatic ecosystems are shifting in light of climate crisis.
In my freetime, I operate a hobby oyster farm and serve as an emergency responder on the Atlantic Ocean.
Alexandra Talty is a 5th year hobby oyster farmer in her hometown, Southampton, New York.
Hosting South Fork Sea Farmers on LTV-EH.
Before becoming an environmental journalist, I spent the majority of my reporting career abroad. I can speak conversational Arabic, Spanish and Italian. Moving to Beirut when I was 23, I spent nearly a decade in Lebanon, calling both Beirut and the small surf town of Batroûn home. My story on LGBTQ+ rights in Lebanon was honored with an LA Press Club award. My travel writing in El Salvador was honored with a silver Lowell Thomas in 2019. In 2015, I was the founding Editor-in-Chief of StepFeed in the Middle East.
Alexandra Talty in Baalbek, Lebanon.