Selected Work
Author and Freelance Writer
Travel | Fiction | Essay | Journalism
Stories
In Harvest Teach, Prairie Fire, Winter 2024
It's Nice to be Nice, The New Quarterly, Winter 2023
The Thar Desert, Nowhere, April 2022
Honeysuckle, The Erotic Review, Apr 2021
The Forgotten Cabin, Rucksack, Dec 2020
Moving Through Mozambique, Litro Magazine, Mar 2020
God's Will, The Real Story, Mar 2020
Postcard from Glasgow, Cagibi Literary Magazine, July 2019
Places
Luxembourg: The Cartography of Friendship, The Sunday Times, Feb 2024
France: Paris, City of Music, Virtuoso, Jan 2024
Senegal: On Board the Bou el Mogdad, Condé Nast Traveler, Dec 2023
Zimbabwe: A Succession of Stillnesses, Condé Nast Traveler, Oct 2023
Zambia: Bush Sense, Range Magazine, Oct 2023
Spain: Sierra de Guadarrama, The Sunday Times, Aug 2023
Galápagos: The Far Side of the World, The Globe & Mail, May 2023
Chile: A Country of the Mind, Virtuoso, Mar 2023
Ireland: Hymns of the Irish Tongue, Hemispheres, Feb 2023
Ireland: Through Water and Fire to Wexford, The Globe and Mail, Oct 2022
Ireland: Slouching Towards Sligo, Washington Post, July 2022
Azerbaijan: Land of Long Life, Geographical, June 2022
Portugal: Entrudo Chocalheiro, Nat Geo Traveller, Mar 2022
Portugal: Costa Nova, The Toronto Star, Mar 2022
Portugal: Kayaking the Aveiro Lagoon, Washington Post, Mar 2022
Peru: Dreaming of Jupiter, Condé Nast Traveler, Feb 2022
Azerbaijan: Mountains of Change, Washington Post, Jan 2022
Britain: Night Train to London, The Globe and Mail, Dec 2021
Portugal: The Douro Line, Travel + Leisure, Dec 2021
Italy: Walking Il Cammino di Dante, Washington Post, Nov 2021
Brazil: Down the São Francisco, Hidden Compass, Oct 2021
The Gambia: Seeking Ninki Nanka, Nat Geo Traveller, Oct 2021
Canada: The Ocean Train Line, The Toronto Star, Sept 2021
Senegal: The Spirit of Saint-Louis, Olongo Africa, Aug 2021
Scotland: Cycling the Hebridean Way, EnRoute, Mar 2021
Portugal: Riding the Line, Expedition Portal, Feb 2021
Orkney: Kayaking theMitherland, The Independent, Jan 2021
Nicaragua: The Map of Memory, Motorcycle Mojo, Nov 2020
Portugal: Rodando no Raia, TREVL Magazine, June 2020 (Portuguese) [pdf]
Bolivia: The Land of No Hay, Overland Magazine, Nov 2019
Scotland: Cowboys of Glasgow, World Literature Today, Nov 2019
Cities
Óbidos, World Literature Today, Mar 2024
Brandon, World Literature Today, Jan 2024
Quito, World Literature Today, Sept 2023
Wexford, World Literature Today, Jan 2023
Victoria, World Literature Today, Nov 2022
London, World Literature Today, May 2022
Baku, World Literature Today, Mar 2022
Dakar, World Literature Today, Jan 2022
Banjul, World Literature Today, June 2021
Glasgow, World Literature Today, Apr 2021
Porto, World Literature Today, July 2020
Reporting
The Galápagos Paradox, The Atlantic, July 2023
Shadow on the Land: Big Effects of Small Town Politics, The Walrus, Nov 2022
Stewards of the Forest: Gambia's Oyster Harvesters, The Guardian, May 2022
What's Good For The Gander, Shooting Times & Country, Feb 2021
Bought the Farm: Landgrabbing in Canada, Maisonneuve, Sept 2020
Thinking
Musician, Heal Thyself: Medicine and Music, VAN Magazine, Jan 2024
Talking to Strangers, World Literature Today, July 2023
Instruments of Torture, The Walrus, Jan 2023
Consolation with Michael Ignatieff, New Humanist, Mar 2022
Nationalizing Canada's Rail, The Globe and Mail, Feb 2022
Geography and Separatism, Canadian Notes and Queries, Nov 2021
Scotland's Gaelic Language Revival, World Literature Today, Apr 2021
How to Talk About Death, New Humanist, July 2020
Eating
Speak Now: Eating Irish in Connemara, Travel & Leisure, Nov 2023
Bueno, bonito, y barato: Eating in Quito, Virtuoso, May 2023
Feast for the Soul: Ramadan in The Gambia, New Humanist, Oct 2021
Decolonizing Food in West Africa, Condé Nast Traveler, Aug 2021
Jim Harrison's Meatballs, World Literature Today, July 2021
The Art History of Absinthe, EATEN Magazine, Feb 2021 [pdf]
Colombia's Green Coffee, DRIFT Magazine, Nov 2020 [pdf]
The Journey of the Piri-piri Pepper, EATEN Magazine, Oct 2020 [pdf]
Reading and Listening
Gordon Goldsborough: Abandoned Manitoba, Literary Review of Canada, Mar 2024
Robert Bateman: Life, Art, and Mice, Canadian Geographic, Feb 2024
Iolanda Batallé: I'll Do Anything You Want, World Literature Today, Jan 2024
Ana Paula Maia: Of Cattle and Men, World Literature Today, Nov 2023
Ted Simon: My Dinner With Jupiter, Motorcycle Mojo, Oct 2023
J.M. Coetzee: The Pole, World Literature Today, Sept 2023
Angela Hewitt: What Gets Us Through, VAN Magazine, June 2023
Robert Pirsig: The Bikers' Bible, New Humanist, Mar 2023
Alisa Ganieva: Offended Sensibilities, World Literature Today, Jan 2023
Margaret Lawrence: Close to Home, Literary Review of Canada, Dec 2022
Forough Farrokhzad: Cold Season, World Literature Today, May 2022
Antonio Lobo Antunes: Hot Summer, Times Literary Supplement, Feb 2022
Seamus Heaney: Field Work, Washington Post, Jan 2022
Michael Ignatieff: Slivers of Light, Literary Review of Canada, Jan 2022
Norm Macdonald: The Last Laugh, Literary Review of Canada, Dec 2021
Esther Woolfson: Between Light and Storm, New Humanist, May 2021
Larry McMurtry: Horseman, Pass By, Los Angeles Review of Books, Apr 2021
Nanjala Nyabola: Travelling While Black, Travel Writing World, Mar 2021
Rory Maclean: Writing Truth to Power, Travel Writing World, Feb 2021
Joe Sacco: Graphic Narrative, Literary Review of Canada, Jan 2021
Margaret Laurence: Escape Artist, The Globe and Mail, Dec 2020
Steve McCurry: Poet Photographer, Travel Writing World, Nov 2020
Cees Nooteboom in Venice, Travel Writing World, Oct 2020
Wade Davis's River of Dreams, Travel Writing World, Sept 2020