Author

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the USA (and How It Got That Way), Pantheon Books, Penguin Random House, out 1/9/2024.

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro (Ecco/HarperCollins) a narrative nonfiction book on the tragic loss in October 2015 of the American cargo ship El Faro. A national bestseller; winner of the Mountbatten Award for Best Book; a New York Times Notable Book of 2018, NPR’s Best Books of 2018, #2 on Paste magazine's Best Nonfiction of 2018, Longreads’s Best Books of 2018.

Editing and Journalism

Freelance writer (2005 to present). Articles published in the New York Times, Boston, Esquire, Hemispheres, Boston Globe, Boston Globe Magazine, Down East, Yankee, Yoga Journal, Architectural Digest, among others.

Editorial Consultant (2015 to present).

Interim Editor, Down East magazine (2020).

Interim Editor, Ideas section, The Boston Globe (2019, 2017).

Editor, Boston magazine, Boston, MA (2007 to 2017).

Screenwriting

Altitude Films (2022 to present).

RadicalMedia (2019 to present).

Other

Lecturer, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Studies, Tufts University (Fall 2021, 2022).

Architectural Designer, Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Boston (2000 to 2005).

Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Master of Architecture.

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, 2024.

Into the Raging Sea is named one of 25 “New Maine Classics” by Down East magazine, February 2023.

Featured guest on Greg Olear’s popular PREVAIL podcast.

Recipient: 2021 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in civic journalism for "Paved and Confused."

Featured in NBC/Universal documentary, “In Jeffrey Epstein’s Shadow.”

Finalist: 2021 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in reader service for "Boston Is Not Okay."

Into the Raging Sea is adapted for a Harvard Business School Case Study by Professor Joseph Fuller.

Keynote speaker at various high-profile venues, including Harvard Business School, MIT’s Supply Chain Management Program, NY Yacht Club, Philadelphia Athenaeum, Nantucket Atheneum, Boston Book Festival, Newburyport Book Festival, Portland Marine Society, New Hampshire Propeller Club, Wardroom Club, American Yacht Club, Maine Maritime Museum, Brookline Booksmith, and many more including public libraries in MA, ME, and PA. Keynote speaker for the Newton Library Spring Fling and the Camden Library Millay Society Event (annual fundraisers).

NYT podcast with editor Pamela Paul (15 minutes) Click here.

On the Wind podcast with host Andy Schell (60 minutes).

HarperCollins Academic's podcast with host Kim Racon (20 minutes).

Juror: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Second Semester Core Final Review, April 2018.

Finalist: 2017 City and Regional Magazine Association Award 2017 in reporting for "A Fatal Mistake."

Juror: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Second Semester Core Final Review, April 2017.

Master of Ceremonies: The Sixth Boston Society of Architects Annual Design Awards Gala, February 2017.

Panelist: "Beyond Homogeneity: Boston's Solution" with Metropolis magazine editor Susan Szenasy at Payette, September 2016.

Finalist: 2016 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in essay/commentary/criticism for “Why Is Boston So Ugly?”

Recipient: 2016 City and Regional Magazine Association Excellence Award in special publication for Boston Magazine’s Chinese Language edition (founding editor).

Speaker: The Fifth Boston Society of Architects Design Awards Gala, January, 2016.

Speaker: “Understanding Design Lecture Series,” Northeastern University, October, 2015.

Panelist: “Alternative Careers for Architects,” MIT, October, 2015.

Moderator: ABX 2015, “The Politics of Design,” a discussion with Brian Golden, Director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority; Kelly Saito, Vice President of Development, Gerding Edlund; and David Hacin, Founder and Principal of Hacin + Associates.

Recipient: 2015 City and Regional Magazine Association Award 2015 in essay (editor) of, “One of Us,” a personal essay on race in South Boston during the Whitey Bulger era.

Recipient: 2015 City and Regional Magazine Association General Excellence Award as executive editor, Boston magazine.

Recipient: 2014 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in ancillary publication as editor, Boston Home.

Recipient: 2014 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in civic journalism for “The Authority.”

Finalist: 2013 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in feature writing (editor) for “The Audition.”

Moderator, panelist: ABX, Residential Design and Construction, 2010.

Recipient: Home Award, American Home Furnishings Alliance, 2010

Recipient: 2009 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in ancillary publication as editor, Boston Home.

Recipient: 2008 City and Regional Magazine Association Award in ancillary publication as editor, Boston Home.

Coxswain

Masters World Championships, Princeton, NJ, 2007, gold medal

Masters National Championships, Worcester, MA, 2007, multiple gold medals

New Hampshire Championships, 2005, gold medal

Member, Cambridge Boat Club, volunteer for the Head of the Charles Regatta