Science & environment
Climate, ecology, and the researchers quietly reshaping how we live — translated for readers, never dumbed down.
My story
From a small-town newsroom to the long form
I got my start at a county weekly, where the editor handed me a notebook and told me to come back with names spelled correctly and a reason anyone should care. Fourteen years later, that's still the whole job.
Since then I've written features for national magazines, ghostwritten essays for founders and scientists, and edited other people's work back to the bone. My beat is loosely "science, culture, and the people in between," but really I follow whatever keeps me up at night with a question I can't answer.
I work slowly and on purpose. I'd rather turn in one piece I'd defend in a room full of my sources than ten I'd quietly hope they never read.
Areas of expertise
What I write about best
Beats I've reported on for years — where I already know the questions worth asking.
Culture & the arts
Books, music, and the makers behind them — profiles and criticism that take the work seriously.
Profiles & interviews
Long conversations that get past the press line to the person actually doing the thing.
Place & community
Stories rooted in a town, a coastline, a single street — where the small detail carries the big idea.
Essays & opinion
First-person and argued pieces that earn their conclusions instead of announcing them.
Ghostwriting
Bylined work for founders, experts, and leaders — your voice, sharpened, in your name.
Experience
A short version of the long story
2021 — Present
Independent journalist & writer
Inkwell · Freelance
Reporting features, essays, and interviews for national magazines while ghostwriting and editing for select brands and publishers.
2016 — 2021
Senior Staff Writer
The Atlantic Review
Wrote and shaped long-form features across science and culture; mentored junior reporters and led the magazine's environment coverage.
2013 — 2016
Reporter & Features Writer
Harbor & Main
Covered city desk and weekend features, learning to file fast, fact-check hard, and find the human angle in any beat.
2012
Cub Reporter
The Coastal Courier
Council meetings, obituaries, and the school play — the unglamorous apprenticeship every working journalist owes a debt to.
How I work
The values behind every piece
Accuracy first
If I'm not sure, I don't write it. Every fact is checked, every quote confirmed, every name spelled right.
Respect for sources
People trust me with their stories. I never burn a source and never sensationalize a life for a headline.
Craft over churn
I'd rather file one piece that lasts than ten that fade by lunchtime. Good writing takes the time it takes.
Let's make something worth reading
Tell me about the story, the essay, or the book you're trying to bring into the world. I read every message myself.