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I'm a journalist specializing in complex, multi-faceted stories about food, science, culture, and the environment. I live in Nova Scotia, where I teach narrative non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College. My first book—the story of a mercurial fisherman and one Atlantic bluefin tuna he chased—was published in July 2023 by Dutton, Knopf Canada and William Collins, and covered widely by outlets including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and CBC’s The Current.
Born in Toronto, I've lived in Quebec City, Vancouver, and Fredericton, and briefly in France and Malaysia. I studied journalism and history at Carleton University, French as a second language at Université Laval, international affairs at Bard College, and professional cooking at Northwest Culinary Academy.
I was the 2019/2020 Tow Journalism Fellow at PBS FRONTLINE and my work has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Canadian Geographic, Scientific American, Vox, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, National Geographic, Maclean's Magazine and The Counter, to name a few. I'm a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers.
I earned my MA-Science from Columbia Journalism School, where I was awarded the Lynton Fellowship for Book Writing. (I've also won an Atlantic Journalism Award in business reporting and been awarded grants from the Sloan Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Fund for Environmental Journalism and the Access Copyright Marian Hebb Research Grant.) I’m represented by Mackenzie Brady Watson at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.
In past lives I was acquiring editor of non-fiction at Goose Lane Editions, Canada's oldest independent publishing house, and the local food columnist on CBC Radio Information Morning in Fredericton. I edited for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and Maclean's Magazine's higher education platform OnCampus, and in 2012 I founded and managed a community-based editorial team for the now-defunct OpenFile Vancouver. I started my reporting career at The Canadian Press.