I’m the Senior Editor at Seattle Met, overseeing the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage. Primarily focusing on the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Canada, Oregon, Idaho and Montana), my writing explores the fun, wild, and often quirky, spirit of area. I’ve authored pieces on Canada’s helicopter skiing industry as well as trips to it’s wine country, tucked away in the Okanagan Valley, ‘Canada’s only desert’. I’ve also written about trips to Singapore (featuring the longest flight from Seattle), and emersed myself in the secret lives of big foot hunters, which led to the Society of Professional Journalism honoring me as the winner of the 2017 Long-Form Feature News Reporting award.

I’ve authored five travel books, edited many others, have been featured in national publications (Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Outside Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, The Alpinist Summit Register, and Yahoo Travel), a regular contributor to NPR’s Week in Review (KUOW.org 94.9). 

I was raised in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. After beginning my career in New York City in the newsrooms of Metro newspaper and Time Out New York, I hightailed it back to the PWN to ski, climb mountains, and continue embracing everything the region has to offer.