About Me
I am an author and freelance journalist. To write Leadville, I lived in the historic Colorado mining town for a year to better understand its remarkable story. My second book is a ghostwritten autobiography of the inventor of a medical device that revolutionized modern heart care.
My background is in the natural sciences and global public health. I've written extensively about the environment, food and water insecurity, communities in transition and, rather unexpectedly, nanomaterials engineering. I was a contributing editor to Preservation magazine and have written for Smithsonian, OnEarth, High Country News, and National Wildlife, among other publications.
I live in Portland, Oregon.