I’m a freelance journalist in Memphis, Tenn. My writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside Magazine, The Associated Press, Life Magazine, Popular Science and elsewhere, even an itty-bitty piece in Esquire. I'm also the author of several biographies for Life Books, including a New York Times best-selling biography of Barack Obama.

Before moving to Memphis in 2019, I lived for a long time in Washington, D.C. At the end of that stint, I spent five years as editor of George Washington University’s award-winning, 260,000-circulation alumni magazine, where we did some fun (and award-winning) stuff: