I’ve been writing since I was a kid, writing online since I was a teenager, and publishing work with “real” websites and magazine since I was in college. Here are some favorite, somewhat-recent pieces.

• Make Peace With Our Trees, How I’d Fix Atlanta (2024)

• Great Big Hairy Expectations, Oprah Daily (2022)

• A Pleasant Catastrophe, Oxford American (2021)

• Rock of Ages: Chattanooga’s Rock City, Garden & Gun (2018)

• Over the Line, Virginia Quarterly Review (2017)

• Hammer in her Hand: Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at 76, Oxford American (2016)

• Fox and Friends, Longreads (2015)

• Hail Dayton, Oxford American (2014)

• The Woodstock of the South, The Believer (2012)

My work has been noted in Best American Sports Writing 2016 and collected in Best American Travel Writing 2015 and Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. In 2010 I was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Reviews & Criticism.