About

I’m a freelance journalist and non-fiction editor from Aotearoa, New Zealand.

I write longform narrative features about scientists who devote their summers to counting albatrosses, through-hiking the length of New Zealand with kids, unpacking kākāpō DNA, and what it takes to win the Great Easter Bunny Hunt.

In 2024, I was a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where I studied media coverage of climate technologies.

Before that, I was the editor of New Zealand Geographic, the bimonthly, independent publication of record which documents New Zealand culture, nature, and scientific research. It won New Zealand’s top prize for magazine publishing in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

I’ve written travel stories for The Washington Post and a range of airline magazines, political analysis for The Guardian, and children’s stories for School Journal. My story on the aftermath of New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster was reprinted in Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-Fiction 2017.

I’m a Fulbright scholar, a graduate of Columbia Journalism School’s science journalism program and a Pulitzer Center grant recipient.

You can find me (occasionally) on Twitter, Instagram and Bluesky.