I’m a freelance journalist in Memphis, Tenn. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside Magazine, Life Magazine, Popular Science, Esquire, The Associated Press and elsewhere.

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 few years in New York City and 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: