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I am a writer. Specifically, a reporter. More specifically, a general assignment feature writer for The Washington Post. I've written from Hollywood, Baghdad, Newtown, the Mississippi Delta, the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and the inside of the Cowboy Poet's mind. I'm also the author of a non-fiction book about nuclear weapons and anti-nuclear activism titled "Almighty," which is based on this story.
In 2019, I wrote mostly about climate change and life during the Trump presidency (here are some of those stories).
I'm from Buffalo, N.Y. I was born in 1983. I started working for newspapers in 1998, and the Post in 2005. In 2015 I was a grantee for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, for which I produced a series of articles on the nuclear history of — and environmental peril in — the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
As for who I really am, sources and subjects have described me as “remarkably concise and unusual,” and “a real indigo crystal child.”