I’ve written investigative features, profiles, travel stories, and gear guides for more than
40 national and regional publications.
My next adventure is in children’s literature. Updates to come.
In the meantime, here are some of my favorite stories from over the years:
There’s a horror in the shadows of American competitive swimming: a continuing legacy of sexual abuse, usually involving male coaches who prey on young women—and a governing body that looks the other way.
Named one of the “Best Stories We’ve Ever Told” by Outside in 2018
A disturbing look at the outdoor industry’s dark side.
Winner of the 2020 FOLIO award for best long-form feature content
Things didn’t look good for Goolwa, a drought-stricken Australian outpost best known for yacht racing and rabble-rousing—that is, until one salty boat-rigger rallied the locals and helped bring his town back from the brink.
The Boatman’s Call | Hemispheres
A 26-year-old Parisian artist travels to places that armies avoid to make some of the world’s most compelling, important and dangerous art. And aside from a few of his friends, no one know his name.
Street Fighter | Hemispheres
Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre is the world’s preeminent stage for ballet. In 2005, its doors shut for a nearly $1 billion renovation. Now, after six years of scandal, corruption, and palace intrigue, the Bolshoi is back.
Dance Revolution | Hemispheres
Jordan Hasay has always known how to win, but at the University of Oregon she earned her running degree by learning how to cope with defeat.
Bode Miller (skier) and Morgan Beck (volleyballer) have had a few rough moments as a couple, including a bitter child-custody battle with an ex-girlfriend and the death of his younger brother, Chelone. But as Bode plunges into the most ambitious ski season of his career, he’s already met his match—a woman who, like him, seems to thrive on a little craziness.
For decades professional bike racing has marginalized women riders and lagged behind nearly every major sport in promoting gender equality. Retired star Iris Slappendel is changing that.
Meet the trans men who are redefining their lives through fitness.
When delivery room doctors can’t answer a seemingly simple question—“Is it a boy or a girl?”—families head to a specialty clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
“My dad believed the honesty of God lay between his rod and the riverbed. He measured time in the mayfly hatches as they launched from the folding waters of the Au Sable, Manistee and Boardman Rivers; blue ribbon trout streams that we explored, picking the insect exoskeletons clinging to soggy pier legs and overturned rocks. The bugs had hours to live, not days, dropping to the river when their lives were spent, breaking the surface tension to get eaten up by the hungry brown and rainbow trout below…”
“I ran over a chipmunk once. I saw it dart under two other falling footsteps before its timing faltered under mine, its birdlike bones crackling under my weight at the same time a collective scream rose in four girls' throats. I can still recall that sound, like twigs breaking but in that sickeningly absolute way I imagine only aerial ski jumpers hear with regularity…”