ABOUT MY WRITING My work has appeared in Backpacker, Budget Travel, Details, Esquire.com, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, Mountain Sports + Living (where I am a masthead contributor), New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, Skiing, Sports Afield, Sports Illustrated Women, 5280 (Denver’s city magazine), and many other national publications.

"Out in the Cold", an article I wrote for Denver's 5280 magazine in 2007, received great critical acclaim, including:

• Finalist for 2008 National Magazine Award in the Public Interest category.
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• Inclusion in Best American Magazine Writing 2008.
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• Winner of 2008 City and Regional Magazine Award in the Civic Journalism category
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• Winner of 2008 WPA Maggie Award for Feature Writing
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• Finalist for Northwestern University's Medill John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism. Click here to view the list of finalists and winners.

Other recent writing achievements include:

• Bronze medal at 2007 City and Regional Magazine Awards in the Profile-writing category for
"A Leg to Stand On" (5280, December, 2006). Click here to read the story.
• Notable list of Best American Sports Writing 2006 for "Free Fall" (Skiing, December 2005).
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Here's a link to a recent story in Mountain Sports + Living about medical marijuana and crystal meth use in the U.S. Mountain West. Here's a story about my fast-and-cheap trip to Tokyo for Budget Travel. And here is a piece in Outside the Daily Beast calls a "vivid and harrowing story" about the man who shut down Aspen with a bomb scare.

Those articles are also accessible via the "work" link at the top of this page, which features selected recent writing samples.

CAREER BACKGROUND In addition to being a writer, I’ve been an editor since 1996. I’ve edited tight, bright front-of-book sections, long and complicated narrative features, department-length reports, personal essays, humor/commentary, book excerpts, and service copy/packages of virtually every kind. I’ve edited several award-nominated articles and worked with dozens of authors and journalists both up-and-coming and well known. Here’s a quick look at some of my highlights and achievements as an editor:

• Articles Editor and Editor-at-Large of 5280, Denver’s city magazine (2006-2008)
• Gold Medal at the 2007 City and Regional Magazine Awards in the Leisure/Lifestyle Interests category. To read an essay I wrote for that package, click here.
• Executive Editor at Skiing magazine (Boulder, CO; 2003-2006)
• Founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of No Boundaries, an adventure-travel magazine that won a WPA Maggie Award for Best Quarterly  in 2002.
• Staff editor at Outside magazine (Santa Fe, NM; 1996-1998)

For references or a complete career bio, please email me at the address at the top of this page.

ABOUT ME I live in Los Angeles with my two street terriers. I enjoy outdoorsy sports like skiing, cycling, surfing, and hiking, and indoorsy pursuits like watching HBO.