Tom Molanphy's journalism has appeared in 48 Hills, USA Today Travel.com, The Frisc, Earth Island Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. His work as a 2022 USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow led to a 2023 1st Place Award in Environmental Reporting from the California News Publishers Association. His latest book, "Marie’s Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco," will be published by Green Writers Press in the Fall of 2026. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and teaches journalism, creative writing and composition at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.