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I'm a staff writer at the Atlantic, where I cover climate change. I’m the author of the New York Times bestseller THE LIGHT EATERS, a book about plants and the researchers who study them (Harper Books, 2024).

I was a 2022 writer in residence at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in VA and Folly Tree Arboretum in East Hampton, NY.
I was a 2021 writer in residence at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in HI, the Marble House Project in VT, and Bloedel Reserve in WA.
I was a 2020 writer in residence at The Strange Foundation in West Shokan, New York.
I was a 2019 writer in residence at Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes, California.

My piece in the New York Times about how the National Park Service is making choices about what to save amid climate change was cited as notable in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022.

I was awarded first place honorable mention in The 2020 Society of Environmental Journalists awards for a feature in Audubon magazine about the global plastic trade and the phenomenon of pre-production plastic pellets washing into waterways long before they have a chance to become a product.

I was a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award, the Morley Safer Award for Outstanding Reporting, and the National Academies of Sciences Award for “Shallow Waters,” a series about how climate change and the dwindling Rio Grande is shaping life and politics at the Texas-Mexico border.

I received the 2017 National Association of Science Writer's Science Reporting Award for my Newsweek cover story, "Choking to Death in Detroit."

Previously:

Quartz, Staff environment reporter, January 2017-December 2019. I reported on climate change, environmental health, and science policy.

Freelance reporter, August 2016-January 2017, writing for publications like Wired, Fusion, and The Fader on climate, health, science, and LGBT issues. I was a regular contributor to the Village Voice, where I wrote about science and scientists in New York City.

Newsweek, Senior staff writer, February 2014-August 2016 • Wrote features and cover stories for the magazine on the health, science, environment, policy, and LGBT beats.

Recipient, Best Article 2015, The Population Institute’s 36th Global Media Awards, for Newsweek cover story on population dynamics, contraceptive access, and climate change
Fellow, University of Alaska Fairbanks Arctic Science Reporting fellowship, 2016
Fellow, Vermont Law School Summer Media Fellowship, 2015
Fellow, Institute for Journalism and Natural Resource’s 2014 Detroit River Institute
Member, Society of Environmental Journalists

Talking Points Memo, Front Page Editor, March 2013-February 2014

The Nation, Associate Editor of “Student Nation,”  September 2012-March 2013; Factchecking intern, June 2012-August 2012

NYU Local, Editor-In-Chief, December 2011-May 2013

The Rachel Maddow Show, Intern, September 2012-December 2012

InsideClimate News, Research Intern, January 2012-May 2012 

El País / The International Herald Tribune, Madrid, Spain Intern, February 2011-March 2011

Gothamist, Reporting Intern, March 2010-December 2011