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
Canada: Down the Bloodvein, Financial Times, June 2025
France: The European Odyssey, Condé Nast Traveller, June 2025
Scotland: Gone Fishing, Virtuoso, May 2025
Canada: Wild Animals I Have Known, Virtuoso, May 2025
Canada: The Manitoba Woods, The Globe & Mail, Jan 2025
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
Tashkent, World Literature Today, May 2025
Almaty, World Literature Today, Mar 2025
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 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
Sod Busting/Head Busting: Birth of a Nation, Literary Review of Canada, Apr 2025
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
History on the Half Shell: Oysters, Literary Review of Canada, July 2025
Liguria's Festa di Foccacia, Virtuoso, Mar 2025
Potluck Nation: Eating in Canada, Literary Review of Canada, Nov 2024
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 Magazine, Feb 2021
Colombia's Green Coffee, DRIFT Magazine, Nov 2020
The Journey of the Piri-piri Pepper, EATEN Magazine, Oct 2020
Reading and Listening
Lukáš Vondráček: Serious Fun, VAN Magazine, May 2025
Mark Richardson: Route of the Matter, Literary Review of Canada, May 2025
James Ehnes: Coming Home, The Globe & Mail, Apr 2025
James Ehnes: A Very Private Sense of Fear, Van Magazine, Feb 2025
Carol Shields and Mavis Gallant: Different Strokes, Literary Review of Canada, Jan 2025
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)
Gipfel Der Türkei, Departures (DE)
Wie Klingt Ruhe?, Conde Nast Traveller (DE)
Mélodie Irlandaise, Sélection (FR)
La Terre des Super Centenaires, Sélection (FR)
Um Caminho de Descoberta, Selecções (PT)
Rodando na Raia do Portugal, TREVL (PT)
Mapeando a Nicarágua, TREVL (PT)
O meu jantar com Júpiter, TREVL (PT)
Um Território Mental, Virtuoso (PT)
Un Territorio Mental, Virtuoso (ESP)
Esquiar? ¿En Turquía?, Departures (ESP)
Tervaskan Tojen Maa, Valitut Palat (FIN)
Tie Uuteen, Valitut Palat (FIN)
