Riley Yuan

Riley Yuan is a Chinese-American writer and photographer, and currently one of six inaugural Murrow Fellows placed in local newsrooms around Washington state. He covers an environmental beat for The Chinook Observer throughout Pacific County, with a focus on enterprise storytelling.

Yuan turns to journalism after spending two seasons on hotshot crews with the U.S. Forest Service. Previously he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Timor, Indonesia, and as a high school English teacher in Hawaii and Vermont. A New England native, Yuan holds a BS in Biology from Cornell University and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Oregon State University.