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
Azerbaijan: Land of Long Life, Geographical, June 2022
India: The Thar Desert, Nowhere, April 2022
Portugal: Entrudo Chocalheiro, Nat Geo Traveller, Mar 2022
Portugal: Kayaking the Aveiro Lagoon, Washington Post, Mar 2022
Dreaming of Jupiter, Condé Nast Traveler, Feb 2022
The High Mountains of Azerbaijan, Washington Post, Jan 2022
Britain: Night Train to London, Nat Geo Traveller India, 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
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
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
Scotland: Cowboys of Glasgow, World Literature Today, Nov 2019
Countrysides
Stewards of the Forest: Gambia's Oyster Harvesters, The Guardian, May 2022
What's Good For The Gander, Shooting Times & Country, Feb 2021 [pdf]
Bought the Farm: Landgrabbing in Canada, Maisonneuve, Sept 2020
Blood-Red, Blank Spaces, Mar 2020 [pdf]
Cities
London, World Literature Today, May 2022
Dakar, World Literature Today, Jan 2022
Glasgow, World Literature Today, Apr 2021
Porto, World Literature Today, July 2020
Essays
Nationalizing Canada's Rail, The Globe and Mail, Feb 2022 [pdf]
Geography and Separatism, Canadian Notes and Queries, Nov 2021 [pdf]
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
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]
Figures in a Landscape
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
