I write narrative features about sports, culture, and national and international affairs. I’ve previously worked at Grantland and ESPN: The Magazine . I’ve also written for The New York Times , Sports Illustrated , and a number of other outlets.
I’ve twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award. For my story The Defender: Manute Bol’s Journey from Sudan to the NBA and Back Again. And again, for my story A Death in Valdosta . My podcast, Sonic Boom , was named one of the Top 50 podcasts of 2019 by The Atlantic and was nominated for a Webby Award . My piece The End of the Hoop Dream was named among the Top 10 stories of 2015 by Longform.org.
I’ve reported on the protest movement in Hong Kong, the refugee experience on the Turkey-Syria border, the aftermath of civil war in Ivory Coast, and the independence movement in what is now South Sudan. Here in the United States, I’ve written features about survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting and about the police killings of Tamir Rice and Breonna Taylor . I wrote a dispatch from Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign and spent months embedding with a snake-handling church in rural Kentucky.