Selected Writing:
Climb Aboard, Ye Who Seek the Truth! | Popular Mechanics
Winner: 2017 Hearst Editorial Excellence Award (Reporting)
Finalist: 2017 National Magazine Award (Feature Writing)
Honorable Mention: 2017 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award
Notable: Best American Travel Writing 2017
The Last Wild River | Oxford American
Winner: 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award
Included in Best American Travel Writing 2009
Listen to an interview about this piece on American Public Media's "The Story with Dick Gordon"
The Lost Kids on the Line: Finding Balance in Lebanon's Refugee Settlements | Popular Mechanics
Notable: Best American Sports Writing 2019
The Remains: Forensic Anthropology on the U.S.-Mexico Border | Esquire
Dogs of Character (book excerpt) | The Virginia Quarterly Review
The Emotional Manipulations of Making a Murderer | Slate
Born to Be Wild | Outside
An Ode to Days on the Lake | Garden & Gun
True North | The New York Times Book Review
Men and Dogs: What's Behind Our 26,000-Year Partnership? | Men's Journal
Southern Enemy Number One: Ralph McGill and the Burden of History | Oxford American
The Rapture of the Deep: Diving the Sunken South | Oxford American
We're Safer Without Pit Bull Bans | The Los Angeles Times
The American Muck | Slate
The Short List: Dogs | The New York Times Book Review
Bullish on the Bull City | Garden & Gun