Writer & Editor

I am a Maryland-based freelance journalist whose work runs the gamut from science and travel writing to profiles and investigative features. Mostly, I write about wildlife and conservation. Sometimes, I write about people, particularly members of invisible or disappearing subcultures. Every once in a while, I write essays. When I’m feeling real squirrely, I write poetry.

I’ve written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, National Geographic, Longreads, Popular Mechanics, WIRED, Field & Stream, Sierra Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Audubon Magazine, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Washingtonian, and other outlets. My literary nonfiction has appeared in The New Territory, Entropy, The Common, Cagibi, Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere.

I’ve also served as a ghostwriter or co-writer on memoirs that have been or will be published by Grand Central Publishing, GP Putnam & Sons, St. Martin’s Press, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

My work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, anthologized in The Year’s Best Sports Writing, and recognized with an Edgar Award for Fact Crime from the Mystery Writers of America.