The Science of Fear with Eva Holland

We all like a great adventure right? But what if that adventure has to deal with confronting life long anxiety, phobias, and debilitating fear? Freelance writer Eva Holland joins me as she discusses her new book: Nerve, Adventures in the Science of Fear. We discuss her own story with fear and how she used emerging scientific techniques in her own journey – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

www.evaholland.com

@evaholland

Eva is a writer-for-hire based in Whitehorse, the capital city of Canada’s Yukon Territory. She's done all sorts of writing and editing work in the ten years since she quit her day job and started freelancing full-time – travel writing, sports writing, movie reviews, grant writing, copy writing, blogging… – but these days she's focused mainly on narrative nonfiction in its various forms: personal essays, reported features, and all the shades in between.

You can find her stories in Outside, WIRED, Pacific Standard, Bloomberg Businessweek, AFAR, Grantland, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hakai, Hazlitt, and many more outlets in print and online. She is a former associate editor and contributing editor at Up Here, an award-winning magazine focused on the Canadian north, and a founding contributor to Vela, an online magazine of creative nonfiction. Eva was also a longtime editor at World Hum, where in addition to editing others’ work she wrote occasional blog posts and travel-themed personal essays.

Eva likes to write about travel, sports, outdoor adventure, and the ways we interact with the wilderness. She has also dabbled in crime writing, and spent some time covering the Yukon mining industry. She is interested in the changes and conflicts that are coming to Alaska and the Canadian North, and to the North American West more generally – in 2015, she wrote a column for Pacific Standard called Dispatches From a Changing Arctic. Her stories have been listed as notable selections in The Best American Essays 2015 and 2013, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017, The Best American Travel Writing 2015, and The Best American Sports Writing 2016 and 2013; her work has also been regularly cited by Longform, Longreads, Byliner, The Browser, Nieman Storyboard, and Lady Journos. In 2015 Eva was a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award.

 

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