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Selected Work

Travel | Fiction | Essay | Journalism

Author and Freelance Writer

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

Uzbekistan: Republics of the Silk Road, The Globe & Mail, Nov 2024

Turkey: The Eastern Slopes, Departures, Nov 2024

Kazakhstan: Selling Canada, Financial Times, Sept 2024

Morocco: Rock the Casbah, Hemispheres, Sept 2024

Tanzania: Paradise Found, Condé Nast Traveller Middle East, Aug 2024

Portugal: Obrigado! Boa Viagem!, Hemispheres​, July 2024

Portugal: Riding the Gravy Train, The Sunday Times, June 2024

Italy: Hiking Amalfi, Virtuoso, April 2024

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 & Mail, Oct 2022

Ireland: Slouching Towards Sligo, Washington Post, July 2022

Azerbaijan: Land of Long Life, Geographical, June 2022

Portugal: Entrudo Chocalheiro, National Geographic, 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 No Change, Washington Post, Jan 2022

Britain: Night Train to London, The Globe & 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, National Geographic, 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 the Mitherland, The Independent, Jan 2021

Nicaragua: The Map of Memory, Motorcycle Mojo, Nov 2020

Bolivia: The Land of No Hay, Overland Magazine, Nov 2019

Scotland: Cowboys of Glasgow, World Literature Today, Nov 2019

 

Postcards

Barcelona, World Literature Today, July 2024

Bordeaux, World Literature Today, May 2024

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 TodayJuly 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

Potluck Nation: Eating in Canada, Literary Review of Canada, Nov 2024

Lookin' Out My Back Door: My Life as John Fogerty, The Atlantic, July 2024

The Lay of the Land: Sex in Canada, Literary Review of Canada, July 2024

Musician, Heal Thyself: Medicine and Music, VAN Magazine, Jan 2024

True at First Flight, The Smart Set, Sept 2023

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 & Mail, Feb 2022

Geography and Separatism, Canadian Notes & Queries, Nov 2021

Scotland's Gaelic Language Revival, World Literature Today, Apr 2021

How to Talk About Death, New Humanist, July 2020

Eating

Snowbound in Halifax, Condé Nast Traveler, June 2024 

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 MagazineFeb 2021

Colombia's Green Coffee, DRIFT Magazine, Nov 2020

The Journey of the Piri-piri Pepper, EATEN MagazineOct 2020

Reading and Listening

Rigged Poetics: Bards and Bitumen, Literary Review of Canada, Dec 2024

Baqytgul Sarmekova: To Hell With Poets, World Literature Today, Nov 2024

Steven Burgess: Guilt Trip, Literary Review of Canada, June 2024

Alice Munro: Remembrance, Literary Review of Canada, May 2024

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 & 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

Foreign Language Reporting

Mit dem Kajak vor den schottischen Orkney-Inseln, Geo Magazin (DE)

Das land der Hundert Jährigen, ​Reader's Digest (DE)

Mélodie Irlandaise, Reader's Digest (FR)

La Terre des Super Centenaires, ​Reader's Digest (FR)

Rodando na Raia do Portugal, TREVL (PT)

Mapeando a Nicarágua, TREVL (PT)

O meu jantar com Júpiter, TREVL (PT)

Duo Parisiense, Virtuoso (PT)

Um Território Mental, Virtuoso (PT)

Dúo Parisino, Virtuoso (ESP)

Un Territorio Mental, Virtuoso (ESP)

Tervaskan Tojen Maa, ​Valitut Palat (FIN)

Tie Uuteen, Valitut Palat (FIN)

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