Recent Writings
They’re Fast. They’re Ready. They Have Metal Detectors (The Boston Globe Magazine)
In Distracting Times, Rumble Strips Are Saving Lives — And Money — On Rural Maine Roads (The Maine Monitor)
Once in Dire Straits, Atlantic Sturgeon Are Staging a Comeback on the East Coast (Smithsonian Magazine)
Selected Longform and Other Writings
The Ripples of Mutiny Bay (Alta Journal)
The Gambler (Boston)
A Grizzly Question (Scientific American)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boston)
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.
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.
The Schism at Seattle Pacific University (Seattle Met)
Nominated for Best Reporting at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.
Clouded Judgment: How a Former Amazon Employee Hacked Capital One (Seattle Met)
Nominated for Best Feature at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.
The Endurance Trials of Rosalie Fish (Seattle Met)
Nominated for Best Profile at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards.
Cricket’s Up to Bat (Seattle Met)
Won SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism award for Best Sports Feature, Magazine.
Crying Wolf in the Age of Alarms (Nautilus)
Home Foundations Are Crumbling, This Mineral Is to Blame. (Undark)
What 30 Years of Studying the New England Woods Reveals About the Colors of Changing Leaves (Smithsonian Magazine)
How a Trove of Whaling Logbooks Will Help Scientists Understand Our Changing Climate (Smithsonian Magazine)
Doug Baldwin Jr. Used to Catch Passes for the Seahawks. Now He’s Helping Free People from Prison (GQ)
The Mystery of the Coast Salish Woolly Dog (National Geographic)
DiCaprio, De Niro’s First Collaboration Left a Complex Legacy in WA Town (The Seattle Times)
Past Longform
The Treasure Hunters (Seattle Met)
Boston, We Have a Wealth-Gap Problem (Boston)
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)
Past 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.