Hello!

I’m a journalist, writer, editor, and multilingual translator. I work currently as a staff writer and reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican, the oldest newspaper in the American west, and for its weekly magazine. I also accept freelance and investigative assignments on an array of topics, and I'm always on the lookout for stories with impact to tell and to share.

 

I report on and write about all kinds of subjects, from nuclear culture, photography, and the arts in general, to Native American affairs, environmental justice, hiking, the great outdoors, food culture, public spaces, conservation, politics, ethnic diasporas and identity, exile/asylum, languages, poverty, homelessness, immigration, and animal rights.

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I've written profiles, long obituaries, feature stories, news articles, reviews, stories and articles about writing stories and articles, as well as personal and reporter essays and editorials. I've taken photos for a bunch of articles and feature stories I've written, and have moderated panels, given workshops and lectures on craft, and participated in public readings.

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I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy and Latin, a bachelor's in language acquisition, a research master's in sociolinguistics and linguistic human rights in colonial and post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa, a master of arts in creative and narrative writing, followed by a master of fine arts in creative and narrative writing, and a graduate certificate in editing. I've also earned graduate credits in a panoply of post-grad courses in news and long-form narrative journalism.

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So far, I've lived in 11 countries (France, Canada, Poland, Mexico, India, England, Italy, Zambia, Hungary, Hong Kong, U.S.) and travelled to more than 70 others. I'm a former child refugee, a forever immigrant, and I've experienced authoritarian rule many times over, poverty, discrimination, exile, and human despair, but also the kindness of strangers. I'm fluent in French, Spanish, Polish, and English, speak intermediate Italian, and understand a few other Indo-European languages (Croatian, Czech, and Portuguese, and some German).​​​

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