Kim Heacox is an American author, photographer, musician, and environmental activist living in Gustavus, Alaska, at the entrance to Glacier Bay National Park.

[11][12] He has written opinion-editorials for The Guardian,[13] the Washington Post,[14] the Los Angeles Times,[15] the Anchorage Daily News,[16] and the Juneau Empire.

[17][18] He appears in the 2009 Ken Burns film The National Parks[19] and has been featured on NPR's Living on Earth (discussing his biography, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire).

His first full-length National Geographic book, Visions of a Wild America (1996), explores the writings of John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, and the landscapes that inspired them.

His photographs have been published in Audubon, Orion, Outside and Sierra magazines, in National Geographic and Smithsonian books, and in The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.