I'm an award-winning journalist and writer with a decade of experience based between Berlin, Germany and Ottawa, Canada.
My work has been featured in The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, Die Zeit, the LA Review of Books, LitHub, and Hazlitt (forthcoming), among others.
I hold an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada. My MFA project is a book about the emotional landscape of the climate crisis.
I’m currently a visiting researcher at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
I’ve received fellowships or grant funding to support my reporting from the International Journalists’ Programme and Toronto Metropolitan University/Toronto Star.
I’ve lived and worked across the Caribbean and Europe.
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