Magrane worked as a hiking guide in Arizona at Canyon Ranch Health Resorts for nine years between 2003 and 2012 after receiving his Master's Degree. Magrane has continued to perform public poetry readings throughout his career. While working as a guide, Magrane became interested in geography, ultimately leading to him seeking a geography PhD in 2012 from the University of Arizona. While working on his PhD, he served as a Teaching and Research associate, teaching several classes. This book "harmonizes science and the arts," according to one reviewer. Examples of topics he has had published in peer-reviewed journals include bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery and anthropogenic climate change. His background has helped him become a significant figure in the geography subdiscipline of geopoetics. His paper 'Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem),' published in
Dialogues in Human Geography (currently the geography journal with the highest impact factor), received several responses, and helped bring attention to geopoetics among mainstream geographers. He serves on the editorial board of the journals
Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Terrain. ==Awards and recognition==