Recent Writings

A Grizzly Question (Scientific American)

Crying Wolf in the Age of Alarms (Nautilus)

The Treasure Hunters (Seattle Met)

Will We Ever Solve the Mystery of the Mima Mounds? (National Geographic)

The Mystery of the Coast Salish Woolly Dog (National Geographic)

The Enduring Pull of ‘The Boys in the Boat’ in Sequim (The Seattle Times)

DiCaprio, De Niro’s First Collaboration Left a Complex Legacy in WA Town (The Seattle Times)

Longform

Boston, We Have a Wealth-Gap Problem (Boston)

The Schism at Seattle Pacific University (Seattle Met)

  • Nominated for Best Reporting at the upcoming 2024 National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

Clouded Judgment: How a Former Amazon Employee Hacked Capital One (Seattle Met)

  • Nominated for Best Feature at the upcoming 2024 National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

The Endurance Trials of Rosalie Fish (Seattle Met)

  • Nominated for Best Profile at the upcoming 2024 National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

The Twisted Life of Clippy (Seattle Met)

  • Part of National City and Regional Magazine award-winning story package.

  • Part of Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism award-winning story package for Business/Technology, Magazine.

Cricket’s Up to Bat (Seattle Met)

  • Won SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism award for Best Sports Feature, Magazine.

The Race to Free Washington's Last Orca in Captivity (Seattle Met)

  • Nominated for Best Feature in the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

  • Won Best Health/Science Feature, Magazine at SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism awards.

Seattle’s Gum Wall: An Oral History (Seattle Met)

Coming Down from the 46th Floor (Seattle Met)

Why Jay Inslee Stayed in Washington State (Seattle Met)

The Vaccine Boosters (Seattle Met)

The Indefinite Recovery (Seattle Met)

Welcome to Seattle! Now Quarantine. (Seattle Met)

A Noble Glow (Seattle Met)

Front-of-Book Features

What Happened to Defunding the Seattle Police Department? (Seattle Met)

Vision Zero or Zero Vision? (Seattle Met)

Bay Watch (Seattle Met)

  • Part of department nominated for Best Section at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

Seattle's Psychedelic Revolution Has Arrived (Seattle Met)

  • Part of department nominated for Best Section at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

The Eternal Salvation of Pike Place Market (Seattle Met)

Remembering the Wave’s Seattle’ Rise, 40 Years Later (Seattle Met)

Home, Coming (Seattle Met)

Sign of All Times (Seattle Met)

All Aboard for Cascadia? (Seattle Met)

  • Won SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism Award for Environment/Natural Disasters.

How Beacon Hill’s Center Is Shifting (Seattle Met)

Bill Gates, Rebooted (Seattle Met)

  • Part of department nominated for Best Section at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.

Flight Shame Gains Ground in Seattle (Seattle Met)

A Prime Time Primary (Seattle Met)