I'm a Denver-based freelance science writer, and a contributing writer at WIRED Science, with articles in places like Popular Science, the New York Times, Scientific American, Vice, Outside, and others. I am also the author of the books Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenceand They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers. My forthcoming book is called Mass Defect: Life in the New Nuclear Age. A writing portfolio lives here, and my articles have won the American Geophysical Union's David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Writing (2021) and the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division's Popular Media Award (2019, 2020).
In previous lives, I was an associate editor at Astronomy and a public education officer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. When I'm not making sentences or recording our conversations, I enjoy reading books I don't write, running weirdly long distances in the wilderness, teaching my dog English, and trying to become a better navigator.
