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 science, technology, and culture appears in venues like The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Best American Food Writing.

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 teaching journalism and creative writing in the MA in Science Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, where I serve as Program Director.