I'm a freelance writer currently at work on a book for W.W. Norton. Raised in the Bay Area, I’m now based in DC.

My magazine features have received first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the San Francisco Press Club. They’ve been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Longreads, nominated for a Livingston Award, and featured on NPR. My work, including a cover story on a crumbling house in the Outer Sunset, was part of the body of writing that won San Francisco a National Magazine Award in 2015. My longform pieces on a brutal murder in my hometown and a pair of teachers at an under-resourced school in DC—for San Francisco and Washingtonian, respectively—landed on those publications’ most-read end-of-the-year lists. I've also checked facts at the New York Times and produced a weekly radio show for KALW. Most recently, I ran editorial operations and research at Alta Journal, a literary quarterly covering California and the western United States. I also work as a freelance copyeditor.

I hold an MFA in literary reportage from New York University and a BA in government from Georgetown University. Before becoming a journalist, I conducted political science research and taught English as a Fulbright Scholar in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.