Selected Work
Author and Freelance Writer
Travel | Fiction | Essay | Journalism
Fiction
The Forgotten Cabin, Rucksack, Dec 2020
Postcard from Glasgow, Cagibi Literary Magazine, July 2019
A Sense of Place
The High Mountains of Azerbaijan, Washington Post, Jan 2022
Dakar, World Literature Today, Jan 2022
Night Train to London, Nat Geo Traveller India, Dec 2021
Riding Portugal's Douro Line, Travel + Leisure, Dec 2021
Il Cammino di Dante: Walking in Italy, Washington Post, Nov 2021
Down the São Francisco: A Brazilian Adventure, Hidden Compass, Oct 2021
Seeking Ninki Nanka: A Gambian Journey, Nat Geo Traveller, Oct 2021
Canada's Ocean Train Line, The Toronto Star, Sept 2021
The Spirit of Saint-Louis, Senegal, Olongo Africa, Aug 2021
Glasgow, World Literature Today, Apr 2021
Scottish Fringe: Cycling the Hebridean Way, EnRoute, Mar 2021
A Fine Line: Motorcycling Portugal's Border, Expedition Portal, Feb 2021
Mitherland: Kayaking Orkney, The Independent, Jan 2021
Mapping Nicaragua, Motorcycle Mojo, Nov 2020
Porto, World Literature Today, July 2020
Rotando no Raia, TREVL Magazine, June 2020 (Portuguese) [pdf]
Brazil: Working with God's Will, The Real Story, Mar 2020
Moving Through Mozambique, Litro Magazine, Mar 2020
Bolivia: The Land of No Hay, Overland Magazine, Nov 2019
Cowboys of Glasgow: Home, Home on the Clyde, World Literature Today, Nov 2019
Essays
When East Meets West: How Geography feeds Canadian Separatism, Canadian Notes and Queries, Nov 2021 [pdf]
Speaking in Tongues: Scotland's Gaelic Language Revival, World Literature Today, Apr 2021
How to Talk About Death, New Humanist, July 2020
Victuals
Decolonizing Food in West Africa, Condé Nast Traveler, Aug 2021
Jim Harrison's Meatballs, World Literature Today, July 2021
Green-Eyed Monster: The Art History of Absinthe, EATEN Magazine, Feb 2021 [pdf]
Patience, Passion, Devoción: Colombia's Green Coffee, DRIFT Magazine, Nov 2020 [pdf]
One Hot Commodity: The Journey of the Piri-piri Pepper, EATEN Magazine, Oct 2020 [pdf]
Countrysides
What's Good For The Gander, Shooting Times & Country, Feb 2021 [pdf]
Bought the Farm: Landgrabbing in Canada, Maisonneuve Magazine, Sept 2020 [Editor's Pick, Longreads]
Blood-Red, Blank Spaces, Mar 2020 [pdf]
Figures in a Landscape
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
