Writer, mother, wanderer & wonderer

I live and write in a remote Greek village and in rural Montana. Over the years, my work has explored nature, culture, sustainable and cultural travel, and the arts. My articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Guardian, Scientific American, Orion Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Art of Eating, and many other publications. I've also been published by The Food & Environment Reporting Network. I served as a contributing writer and editor for Oxford University Press on its award-winning Oxford Companion to World Cheese, with my focus being the sections devoted to Greece and Italy.

I'm a Society of American Travel Writers award winner and my work has been featured by The New York Times in its year-end roundups of the year’s best journalism. For five years, I served as editor and writer at Montana’s extraordinary Tippet Rise Art Center, writing about music, sculpture, and nature for the art center’s website and publications and, at times, its podcast.

I love to read and write, garden, forage, cook, and eat, walk the ancient pathways of Greece, the hardwood forests of Northern Michigan, and the mountains of Montana, swim in the Myrtoan Sea, and adventure and explore with my partner and young adult kids.

Just a portion of my work is featured on my website. If you would like to read a particular story and don’t see it here, please contact me; I’ll be happy to share a PDF if I can. To discuss stories and collaborations, or just to say hello, please contact me using the form here.