About

I’m a freelance journalist and non-fiction editor from Aotearoa, New Zealand. I’m currently a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, UK, where I’m reporting on ocean-based geoengineering.

I write longform stories about scientists who devote their summers to counting albatrosses, through-hiking the length of New Zealand with kids, training search-and-rescue dogs, unpacking kākāpō DNA, and what it takes to win the Great Easter Bunny Hunt. 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 was previously 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 speak on national radio, in classrooms and at conferences. Earlier this year, I co-presented an audio version of one of my stories.

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.

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

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