I’m a writer, editor, and educator based in Denver, Colorado.

My novel, The Sky Was Ours, was published in 2024 by Penguin Books (and is available here).

My writing on food, environmental issues, books, and culture appears in venues like like The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Best American Food Writing.

A former deputy editor of The Counter, my journalism has been supported by the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2013, I started The Atlantic’s “By Heart” series—as-told-to essays by leading writers on the passages from literature that shaped their lives and work.

That led to editing Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (Penguin, 2017), a book-length collection that included favorites from “By Heart” alongside new contributions.

I teach writing at Vermont’s Sterling College and Colorado’s Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop.