Heide Brandes on Muck Rack

Heide Brandes

Verified
(She/Her)
Oklahoma City, United States
As seen in: MSN, MSN Canada, Yahoo Life, BBC, BBC Mundo, Business Insider, Business Insider Singapore, Daily Mail, HuffPost, Reuters and
Covers:  Travel, Adventure, Conservation, Food and Drink, Luxury Travel, Hiking, Fishing, Destination Travel, Climate Change, Travel Trends, Beer and Brewing, Bourbon and Distilling, History, Fishing, Cruises

Get in touch with Heide

Contact Heide, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Heide Brandes’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Heide Brandes is an award-winning journalist, travel journalist and editor with more than 20 years of published experience.

She regularly contributes to numerous state, regional and national publications and has been published in BBC Travel, National Geographic, Cowboys & Indians, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Forbes, United Airlines Hemispheres, Sierra Magazine, Route Magazine, The Smithsonian, The Houston Chronicle, Azure Road, The Guardian UK, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Po…

Heide Brandes’s Journalist Portfolio

Heide Brandes

Heide Brandes

Heide Brandes is an award-winning journalist, travel journalist and editor with more than 20 years of publish…

View article →
The Quest to Save the World's Most Coveted Chocolate

The Quest to Save the World's Most Coveted Chocolate

For these ambitious scientists in the rainforests of Ecuador, helping the environment has never tasted so swe…

View article →
More Travelers Are Testing Their Limits With These "Wild" Adventures in Total Darkness

More Travelers Are Testing Their Limits With These "Wild" Adventures in Total Darkness

More travelers are trying wild caving. Learn what it is, what it's like, and expert-recommended places to try…

View article →
You Can Eat Your Way Through History Along Tulsa's Stretch of Route 66

You Can Eat Your Way Through History Along Tulsa's Stretch of Route 66

The Mother Road's dining scene is well worth the drive.

View article →
The Turkish Coffee Lady Alexandria: Coffee, Culture, Connection

The Turkish Coffee Lady Alexandria: Coffee, Culture, Connection

North Stars: Community Support Heritage Value Gender Equality "I try to encourage women, especially immigrant…

View article →
Dee Robinson - A Spirited Conversation

Dee Robinson - A Spirited Conversation

Dee Robinson didn't set out to change the bourbon industry; she just wanted to make something beautiful and s…

View article →

Articles

How Idaho architects are building for people who aren’t there yet

|
By Heide Brandes Verified
| Idaho Business Review Verified
Before a single line gets drawn on paper, James Marsh listens. The CEO and president of CSHQA, a Boise-based architecture and engineering firm with offices in Sacramento and Denver, said the first conversations on a commercial project rarely look like architecture at all. They look like questions, like “When do your people arrive? How late do they stay? Where do they naturally gather?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Boise bets the block

|
By Heide Brandes Verified
| Idaho Business Review Verified
On a 70-degree afternoon in late April, the front door of a new mixed-use building in Boise‘s Central Bench neighborhood opens onto a sidewalk wide enough for a stroller, a coffee cup and a conversation. A bus stop sits a quarter mile away. A grocery store sits closer. The building is set near the curb instead of behind a parking lot.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

A Boise lab, a bad-breath discovery and the race to catch forever chemicals

|
By Heide Brandes Verified
| Idaho Business Review Verified
The water looks clean, tastes clean and pours clear from the tap into the glass on the kitchen counter without a shimmer of menace. At a Glance: Pearlhill Technologies awarded NIH grant for PFAS detection Boise State’s ENVIR-OGT detects PFAS at EPA regulatory threshold ENVIR-OGT uses machine learning to identify PFAS compounds Inside that ordinary glass, though, molecules engineered in the 20th century may be drifting through, bonded so tightly that nothing in nature can break them apart.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,359 licensed articles (1,678 Total)

Interview

See all →

Have you ever used a typewriter?

The best class my mother ever made me take was a typing class when I was about 10 or 11. We used electric typewriters!

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I prefer email pitches sent to heide@heidewrites.com

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I did work for my high school and college newspaper. I started out as a reporter and eventually served as editor.
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified