Selected Writing

The Talented Mr. Bruseaux/ The Atavist

The secret life of America's first Black private investigator

Backlash/ The New York Times Magazine

The rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front

Giant Lizards and Hissing Ducks/ National Geographic

Dispatches from Florida's war on invasive species

Can You Cure A Domestic Abuser?/ The Atlantic

A group of Midwestern men come together to battle their demons

PRAY/ Pop-Up Magazine

The hunt for the world's most prolific graffiti artist

Without A Trace/ Harper's

A former Afghan soldier searches for his missing brother

The Handshake/ The New Republic

An ambiguous handshake with a neighbor leads to a Muslim man facing life in prison

The Last Unknown Man/ The New Republic

An amnesiac man's decade-long quest for his true identity

The Ghosts of Pickering Trail/ The Atavist

Learning their new home has a bloody past, a traumatized family calls in an expert on haunted real estate (written with Will Hunt)

Ride Along with the Cow Police/ The Oxford American

A Texas Ranger combats a modern epidemic of cattle theft