This month sees two of my reported features hitting the newsstand! In the April/May issue of Up Here, I wrote about the Yukon’s world-beating team of cross-country skiers: The Bigger They Come. And my second story, The New Gold Rush Kings, is on the cover of April’s Up Here Business – it’s not online (yet, [...]
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New Stories: ‘The Bigger They Come’ and ‘The New Gold Rush Kings’
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Cross-Country Skiing, Mining, Sports, Up Here, Up Here Business, Yukon on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New Essay: ‘The Ferries and the Last Frontier’
Posted in Stories, tagged Alaska, World Hum on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This one’s been in the works for awhile. My four-part essay series on traveling Southeast Alaska by state ferry is being published on World Hum throughout this week. Part one, The Roughest Place in the World, went live today. Check it out, and stay tuned for the rest!
New Job: Associate Editor at Up Here Publishing
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Editing, Up Here, Up Here Business on February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Big news! On Thursday I start a new, full-time job as an associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines. It’s a temporary position, a ten-month maternity leave fill-in, and I’ll be spending part of that time at the head office in Yellowknife, NWT. (The rest of the time I’ll be working here [...]
New Essay: Nerve.com’s True Stories
Posted in Stories, tagged A & P, John Updike, Nerve, Oversharing on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got a new personal essay up over at Nerve.com: True Stories: I Fell for a Fictional Character in My Own Play. Check it out!
New Essay: ‘In the Bush’
Posted in Stories, tagged Vela, Writing, Yukon on November 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My first piece is up on Vela: In the Bush. It’s about the time I spent working in the Yukon backcountry this past summer. Worth noting: it’s extremely difficult to write about a life-altering experience without actually calling it “life-altering.”
New Essay: ‘My Deep Freeze Outhouse Epiphany’
Posted in Stories, tagged Alaska, Up Here, Yukon Quest, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s Up Here magazine includes a short essay I wrote about my time at Slaven’s Roadhouse last winter. It’s not online (yet, at least – I’ll update if that changes) but if you can put your hands on a hard copy, check it out! I’m excited to have my first story in Up Here, [...]
Vela: Written by Women
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Vela, Women, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a new project: Vela, an online magazine featuring “travel-inspired creative nonfiction, written by women.” I’ll be contributing alongside five other writers — Sarah Menkedick and Lauren Quinn, both of whom I’ve worked with before at World Hum and Matador, as well as Simone Gorrindo, Molly Beer and Amanda [...]
New Essay: ‘Stilettos in Paris’
Posted in Stories, tagged Las Vegas, Paris, World Hum on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An essay I wrote about a press trip to the Paris Las Vegas hotel/casino went live today on World Hum. Check it out: Stilettos in Paris.
A Few Recent Stories
Posted in Stories, tagged Alaska, National Geographic, National Parks, Ontario, Travel Books, World Hum, Yukon on June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After what seems like a long silence on the story front, I have a few recently published items to share: First up, I’ve got a pair of Top 10 lists on NationalGeographic.com — Top 10 Foods to Eat in Ontario and Top 10 Family Activities in Ontario. Next, now that World Hum is back in [...]
South and East
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Barbados, Matador, Ontario, Surfing, Taylor Steele on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m flying back to Ontario tomorrow to visit friends and family, and then headed on to Barbados late next week. The Barbados visit will be bittersweet: It’s my last trip before my dad wraps up his work there and moves home to Canada, and while I’m sure I’ll get back to the island again even [...]
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