As an international journalist driven by narrative features and investigative work, I've ranged from Maine's stately Governor's Mansion to the mud hut of a witch doctor in Sierra Leone. When I write, my goal is to immerse the reader into the subject's world while telling a story with nuance and meaning. I enjoy finding unexplored topics, and bringing fresh perspective to existing topics.
My second book was published in April of 2023. It documents the stories of a handful of ordinary Americans who independently came to believe that they’d each stumbled upon “One True Cure” to all disease. The cures were different — lasers, leeches, bleach ingestion and baking soda injection — but they were all led by medical freedom activists down the same path, a path that is both comic and tragic. Also, zombies.
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My first book was published in September of 2020. It features the strange-but-true story of Grafton, NH, a small town that became the nexus of a collision between bears, libertarians, guns, doughnuts, parasites, firecrackers, taxes and one angry llama.
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More stuff I've written about people I've met
Karl Michelin, the Inuit seal hunter who fears his sustainable lifestyle is threatened by Canada’s hydropower industry.
The townspeople of Grafton, NH, who were invaded by libertarians. And then bears.
Brandon Berry, a young boxer whose cash-strapped town desperately needs him to win.
Earl Shero, the Oklahoma rancher whose cows faced a deadly heat wave — in January.
The people who take salt from the driest place on Earth and bring it to our roadways.
Alex Weeman, a high schooler whose graduation carries special meaning.
Salome Kamara, a young mother in Sierra Leone whose pregnancy is complicated by corruption and Ebola.
Myron Wotton, the “Lobster Prince” who is poised to inherit coastal Maine’s marine treasures (unless climate change ruins it all).
Thomas Lemieux, the man who spent thousands building an Iron Man suit in his basement.
The Missouri casinos that are legally chained to flood zones — with taxpayers helping to pay for their sky-high insurance costs.
Johnny Thomas, the garbageman who dreams of butterflies.