b. 1990 Writer and Photographer
Based in Sarasota, Florida
Contact
michaeladno@gmail.com
(941) 726-4752
Commissions
My writing is represented by Janis Donnaud, and my photographs are represented by David Castillo.
Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships
Best American Science and Nature Writing, Edited by Susan Orlean, 2025
Green Eyeshade Award for Environmental Reporting, 2025
Green Eyeshade Award for Light Feature Reporting, 2025
Sunshine State Award for Serious Feature Reporting, State and National, 2025
Sunshine State Award for Light Feature Reporting, Local & Community, 2025
Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant with Rolling Stone, 2025
Environmental Journalism Program, National Tropical Botanical Garden, 2024
Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Grant, 2024
Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant with Oxford American, 2024
Art Writer’s Grant Finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation, 2023
Green Eyeshade Award for Business Reporting, 2021
Key West Literary Seminar Residency, 2020, 2019, 2018
Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, 2020, 2016
James Beard Award for Profile, 2019
Research Fellowship, University of Florida, 2019
Writer’s Room Residency, The Betsy Hotel, 2019
Culture Builds Florida Grant, Division of Cultural Affairs, Dept. of State, 2019
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Finalist, 2017
Puffin Foundation Grant for Photography, 2016
John Ringling Towers Fellowship, 2015
Keyholder Residency, Lower Eastside Printshop, 2015
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Fellowship, 2015, 2014
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, 2015
Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2014
Full CV available here
Select Editorial and Commercial Clients
The New York Times
The Bitter Southerner
The New Yorker
Scientific American
The Guardian
The Surfer’s Journal
Bloomberg Businessweek
AT&T
Aperture
Emocean
The Atavist
YETI
Rolling Stone
The Washington Post
The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust
The Oxford American
Art Basel
Artsy
Indoek
The Boston Globe
Garden & Gun
Men’s Journal
Southern Living
National Geographic
Outside
Void Magazine
Wax Magazine
Cultured
NBC
Wildsam Field Guides
Noah
Curbed
Flamingo Magazine
Monster Children
Camera Austria
Boston Magazine
SRQ Magazine
PACKET
Autre
Guernica
Sarasota Magazine
At Large
Christie’s Auction House
Hyperallergic
The Wall Street Journal
The Miami Herald