About
My written and multimedia work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Mother Jones, Health Magazine, The Oprah Magazine, and Outside, among others. A graduate of Yale and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, I’m a contributing editor at Popular Science and author of The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook (HarperCollins, 2009) and an upcoming travel book called 101 Places Not to See Before You Die (HarperPaperbacks). I’m also a recipient of the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Reporting, a winner of the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing and have contributed several commentaries to American Public Media’s Marketplace. In addition to actual reporting work — and keeping a blog about Type 1 Diabetes on A Sweet Life – I specialize in experiences that are uncomfortable in the moment but amusing afterwards, including (but certainly not limited to) teaching Latin and math at an all-boys middle school, taking trapeze and improv comedy classes, teaching hip hop aerobics in Beijing, paragliding in South Africa, biking across the United States, traveling halfway across the Pacific by sailboat, driving a formula 1 race car, and leading ice-skating classes for five-year-olds. When not writing, I run an online business called Illegal Briefs that sells legally themed underwear. Because let’s face it: somebody needs to supply the world with Request for Admission thongs.
Photo credit: Sara Remington
