I’m a journalist who specializes in telling stories about women.

In 2023, my investigative reporting on the family court system in the United States won a National Headliner Award and the Distinguished Service Award For Excellence In Media from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma. I was a finalist in 2023 for two additional prizes, one from Investigative Reporters & Editors and one from the Medill School of Journalism.

I began my career as a staff writer for The Rutland Herald, in Vermont, and The Hartford Courant, in Connecticut. My work has since appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Business Insider, Type Investigations, Scientific American, The Texas Observer, The Boston Globe, VT Digger, The Tampa Bay Times, and many other outlets.

I am the author of Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, a biography of housewife, naturalist, and adventurer Phoebe Snetsinger that was published by Bloomsbury in 2009. I worked on the book as a fellow at MacDowell.

My bachelor’s degree is from Harvard, where I majored in Social Studies, earned a certificate in Latin American Studies, and graduated magna cum laude. I have a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia and was a lecturer in science writing at Johns Hopkins.

I live with my husband, daughter, and dog in Hanover, New Hampshire, just off the Appalachian Trail.