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I'm a journalist, author, and speaker in Orlando, Florida.
On the journalism side of my life, I write about science and the environment, with many bylines in National Geographic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. In general, my work in all genres orbits around socioeconomic inequality and how in systems where the law upholds that inequality, outlaws and tricksters can be the greatest heroes.
My first book, Gator Country, is a work of narrative nonfiction that blends literary journalism, true crime, and oral history. Gator Country received three starred reviews and many accolades. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People Magazine Book of the Week, and was honored by the Florida Center for the Book and the Library of Congress.
