I’M A FREELANCE JOURNALIST, essayist and fiction writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. As a journalist, I’m a general interest writer – almost no topic escapes my curiosity—and my articles have spanned many subjects, from zebrafish bioengineered to glow in the presence of pollutants to feminist philanthropy to bluebird preservation to golfing on Afghanistan’s one and only golf course.

I’ve published articles and essays in the New York Times newspaper and magazine, Salon, Ms, Oprah, More, Discover, New Scientist, Wildlife Conservation, Preservation, Gourmet, Vegetarian Times, American Archaeology, Entrepreneur, Experience Life, the Walrus and many other publications. I've also published fiction in literary magazines, including West Branch and the Indiana Review, and was awarded the Ohio Arts Council’s major fiction fellowship in 2003.

My memoir, Stalking the Divine, won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Best Nonfiction Book Award in 2004. Kabul Beauty School—co-authored with Deborah Rodriquez—is a New York Times bestseller. Best American Travel Writing 2008 includes my article from Gourmet about dining out in Kabul.