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. Lately, I’ve been more focused on the my books and newsletter.

Essays and features
Some of my favorite stand-alone pieces from over the years:

• 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)

Honors and collections
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.