Selected writing, translation, research
On trucking school // “Lost Highway” // Harper’s (PDF)
On a man, the road, an underworld // “Nervous Behavior” // 1843 Magazine & Pulitzer Center // finalist for the 2025 National Magazine Award in profile writing
On losing Laszlo, finding Mr. Laz, the road as other dimension // “Amarillo by Morning” // Texas Highways
On a small town // “An Intersection at the End of America” // The Oxford American & Pulitzer Center (PDF) // Here I discuss the project on Points South
On the interstate from Wichita to Duluth // “Freeway Ends,” roadtriptych pt. 3 // n+1
On the interstate from Austin to Wichita // “Land Noises,” roadtriptych pt. 2 // n+1
On driving west with a dog on the emptiest highway // “No Close Encounters of Any Kind,” roadtriptych pt. 1 // n+1
On the concretization of a symbol and the border wall in progress // The Yale Review and published in the collection A WORLD OUT OF REACH (Yale University Press)
On the northward creep of the border and the road south to deportation // Politico Magazine // Finalist for the Livingston Award in national reporting
On the bridge between two Laredos // Foreign Affairs & Pulitzer Center
On families in detention, from inside // newyorker.com
On long-haul truckers running I-5 in tight quarters while the world quarantines // Cal Sunday
On Lilian, the boy, their odyssey // The Nation & Pulitzer Center // Here I discuss the project
On Phoenix and a house // CITY BY CITY: DISPATCHES FROM THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS (FSG/n+1)
I translated Yanick Lahens’ novel Bain de lune // Deep Vellum // CMLP Firecracker Award finalist and French Voices Prize winner
On prospective migrants planning the route from Haiti to Brazil // newyorker.com
On Damián Ortega // newyorker.com // Republished in Módulos de construcción (FCE)
On the commercial sexual exploitation of homeless teens; on the stolen parrot of Claremont; on ankle monitors and surveilled immigrant mothers; on the life and death of Shaaliver Douse (reporting); and other Metro stories // The New York Times
Research: I worked as a fact-checker at the New Yorker and on books—favorites include Jill Lepore's THIS AMERICA and Lawrence Wright's GOD SAVE TEXAS. I now work for writers and directors in the US and Europe as a development researcher on film/tv projects.