Selected work
Highlights
New York magazine
The Drift
Lapham’s Quarterly
“The Haunting of Drums and Shadows: On the Stories and Landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project Left Unexplored”
Garden & Gun
Grist
“Your Guide to the Georgia PSC”
I worked with Grist on a package guiding readers through Georgia’s Public Service Commission, the body of elected representatives that regulates the state’s energy industry and determines how much fossil fuel it burns. My specific contributions: “Breaking Down a Georgia Power Bill”; “Georgia’s Coal Ash Cleanup Controversies, Explained”; “The People Who Control Georgia’s Climate and Energy Plans”
Popula
Atlanta magazine
Rotary magazine
Epicurious
“Transform Your Vegetable Garden With This One Simple Quack”
“Bread and Roses, and Determination, on a Dark January Weekend”
The Outline
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reporting
“For Many Diverse Communities in Atlanta, Social Media Isn’t Just a Way to Keep in Touch—It’s a Place to Create Journalism That Serves Their Needs”
285 South, July 2024
“Norcross, One of the Southeast’s Most Diverse Cities, Has a History of Division, but City Leaders and Residents See a Future Steeped in Unity”
Canopy Atlanta, June 2024
“The Void That General Motors Left Behind”
Canopy Atlanta Lakewood Heights issue, October 2023
“Climate Change Is on the Ballot This November—and Every Elected Official in Georgia Has a Role to Play in Fighting It”
Atlanta magazine, November 2022
“Climate Change Is Making the Whole City Hotter—but Rising Temps May Put Some Atlantans in More Danger Than Others”
Atlanta magazine, August 2021
“Georgia’s Forests Are a Shrinking Line of Defense Against Global Warming. Can Janisse Ray Make Us Care Enough to Save Them?”
Atlanta magazine, August 2019
"How to Cook a Muskrat (You Have to Skin It First)"
Epicurious, May 2017
"The Soup That Symbolizes Haitian Freedom"
Epicurious, December 2016
"Meet the GoSun Oven, the Solar-Powered Oven of the Future"
Epicurious, March 2016
"Can a Poor Chicago Neighborhood Be Reborn as a National Park?"
Next City, July 2015
"The Floating Forest"
Chicago Reader, September 2012 (reprinted in the Utne Reader)
"The Last Big Bang"
Chicago Reader, September 2011
Profiles
“Does This Scot Know Oats Best?”
Oatly, November 2022
“This Chattanooga-Based Baker Makes Meme-Worthy Creations”
Heated, September 2019
"Kerry James Marshall Spent His Life Bringing Black Faces to Classic Art"
Chicago magazine, April 2016
"Can the MacArthur Foundation Find Its Mojo?"
Chicago magazine, September 2015
"The Natural Selection of Jenny Kendler"
Chicago Reader, June 2014
"Susan Nussbaum's Next Act"
Chicago Reader, May 2013
Reviews
“Atlanta’s 75 Best Restaurants” package (editor)
Atlanta magazine, October 2022
“14 Best Things to Do in Savannah, Georgia”
Condé Nast Traveler, July 2020
"The Antarctic Ice Sheet Is on the Verge of Collapse and We Evaluated This Season's Freshest Pumpkin Spice Products"
Epicurious, 2016
"The Deserts Bloom"
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2014
"Henry Darger, in the Realms of the Possibly Real"
Chicago Reader, 2013
"Will the 80s Ever End?"
Chicago Reader, 2012
Other stuff
“Springtime Is the Right Time to Cook with Pine”
Epicurious, 2019
"A Loving Portrait of Appalachian Food, Past and Future"
Epicurious, 2016
"How Cookbooks Write (and Rewrite) History"
Epicurious, 2016
"We Discovered the New Kale, and It's Literally Everything"
Epicurious, 2016
"How to Build a Better Buttercream"
Epicurious, 2015
"Use the Orange. The Whole Orange."
Epicurious, 2015
"The Art of Collecting"
Chicago Reader, 2013
"The Puzzler and the Puzzled"
Chicago Reader, 2012