Features, Essays, and Commissions
“The Scientist and the Billionaire: The Secrets Belonging to one of America’s Most Powerful Non-profits” Rolling Stone, January 2026
"Literally Everyone's Invited: An Ode to South Florida," Edited by Gesi Schilling and Sarah Trudgeon, O, Miami Poetry Festival, November 2025
"Life & Death at the County Fair," The Bitter Southerner, November 2025
"The Sub Tropic Cure," Emocean, May 2025
“Roe Ethridge Thinks He’s Center Square,” The Surfer’s Journal, April 2025
"Leaders of Mental Health Giant Promised Big Bonuses to Deal With Federal Investigations," Katie Thomas, The New York Times, April 2025
"Lean Staffing, Lax Hiring, Training Flaws: Why Sexual Assaults at Hospitals are up," Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, November 2024
"Veterans Dept. Investigating Acadia Healthcare for Insurance Fraud," Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, October 2024
"Acadia Healthcare Says It Faces New Federal Investigations," Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, September 2024
"Acadia Hospitals Reach $20 Million Settlement With Justice Dept," Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, September 2024
"How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients," Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, September 2024
“In Louisiana, a Photographer Charts Storms and Weather as Markers of Time,” Aperture, September 2024
“Acadia Healthcare’s Psychiatric Hospitals Hold People Against Their Will,” by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, August 2024
“The Rise and Fall of a $600 Million Strip-Mall Tycoon,” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2024
“The March of the Mangroves,” Scientific American, June 2024
“The Worm Charmers,” The Oxford American, May 2024
“Proper by any Measure, Harrison Roach,” The Surfer’s Journal, May 2024
“Confessions of a Boston Moll,” Dave Wedge, Boston Magazine, March 2024
“Ted Bundy Bludgeoned and Almost Killed Me,” Anna Moore, The Guardian, February 2024
“A Fire in the River: Big Sugar and Black Snow in the Everglades,” Rolling Stone, January 2024
“Wish You Were Here, Photos from the American South,” The Bitter Southerner Publishing, January 2024 (Front and Back Cover)
“Nabil Harb, Polk County,” Aperture Magazine, December 2023
“Retirees Blindsided by Taxable Benefits,” The New York Times, December 2023
“The Cove,” Emocean Magazine, December 2023
“US Veterans Got a Mortgage Break. Now They’re Losing Their Homes,” Bloomberg Businessweek, November 2023
“The Mystery of Florida’s Flamingos,” The New Yorker, October 2023
“The Other Homeschooling Parents,” Charley Locke, Bloomberg Businessweek, October 2023
“The Past Is Not My Present, Layne Beachley,” The Surfer’s Journal, October 2023
“Sports Are in, Gender Studies Are Out at College Targeted by DeSantis,” Patricia Mazzei, The New York Times, Septemeber 2023
"Hole 6 Introduction," Dustin Miller, Newspaper Club, September 2023
"Left and Leaving," The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Journal, September 2023
"Stop the Willow Oil Project," Noah, September 2023
"Can Digital Resilience Make Hurricanes Less Destructive? We Built a Fake City to Find Out," The Washington Post, June 2023
"Food Stories, Writing That Stirs the Pot," The Bitter Southerner Publishing, May 2023
"A Florida Garden Brings Louis Comfort Tiffany's Work to Life in Bloom," Joseph Treaster, The New York Times, April 2023
"The Orchid Maker," The Bitter Southerner, April 2023
"A Case of the Dissapearing Waves," The New York Times, April 2023
"A Photographer Frames His Own American South," The New York Times, March 2023
"Charting the Way Forward," The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Journal, Spring 2023
"Out Back," Wildsam Field Guide to the Florida Keys, January 2023
"No Aloha," Emocean Magazine, December 2022
"Guiding the Way," The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Journal, Fall 2022
"How a Century-old Bakery is Weathering Inflation in the US's Worst-hit City," The Guardian, August 2022
"Restoring Rookery Bay," The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Journal, Spring 2022
"Outsider Art's Ultimate Insider: The Collection of William Fagaly," Christie's, January 2022
"Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too." 39th Annual Key West Literary Seminar Program, Reprinted from the New York Times, January 2022
"Counting Coup," Art Basel Magazine, December 2021
"The Long Game," Art Basel Magazine, December 2021
Wildsam Field Guide to the Gulf Coast, Arcadia Publishing, June 2021
“The Sargassum Dilemma,” Bonefish Tarpon Trust Journal, April 2021
“The Screwtape Letters,” The Surfer’s Journal, March 2021
“On Surfing,” Published by Indoek, First Edition of 2000 Copies Published in December 2020
“Endless Subscribers: Pro Surfers Follow a New Path to Stardom,” The New York Times, November 2020
“The Strange, Booming Market of Florida’s Palmetto Berries,” The Guardian, November 2020
“Uncharted Waters,” Bonefish Tarpon Trust Journal, Fall 2020
“Down in a Southern State,” The Surfer’s Journal, July 2020
“How We Drink Now,” Guernica Magazine, May 2020
"Keeping the Country," The Bitter Southerner, January 2020
"The Blue Lego of Lincolnville, Ty Williams," Void Magazine, January 2020
"New Art Museum Adds to Sarasota's Cultural Heritage," The New York Times, January 2020
"The Price of Peace at Pilgrimage," Graylit Journal, November 2019
"The Naturalist," Void Magazine, November 2019
"The Sum of Life: Zora Neale Hurston," The Bitter Southerner, September 2019
"Spraying Antibiotics to Fight Citrus Scourge Doesn’t Help, Study Finds," by Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, August 2019
"The River's Voice," Void Magazine, August 2019
"Wall Street's Great Ice Cream Buyout," by Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 2019
"The Confluence of Citrus and Sugar, Cuba and Florida," Bound By Water Column, Void Magazine, July 2019
"Ghosts on the Tide," Bound By Water Column, Void Magazine, June 2019
"The Condition of Becoming," Bound By Water Column, Void Magazine, May 2019
"Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics, Alarming Health Officials," with Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times (Syndicated by the Miami Herald, and the Herald Advocate), May 2019
"New York Rejects Keystone-Like Pipeline in Fierce Battle Over the State’s Energy Future," with Vivian Wang, The New York Times (Syndicated by the Boston Globe), May 2019
"A Spiritual Reckoning in the Keys," Bound by Water Column, Void Magazine, April 2019
"When Condo Boards and Residents Clash, Legal Bills Mount," by Paul Sullivan, The New York Times, March 2019
"At Home with the Nightcrawler King," Artsy Magazine, March 2019
"How Anglers Care for Catch-and-Release Species," Bound by Water Column, Void Magazine, March 2019
"Once It Comes Time: William Christenberry," The Bitter Southerner, February 2019
"Where Music and Poetry Press Up Against Memory: A Conversation Between Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Kevin Young," Littoral, January 2019
"Surfing Remade in the Rockaways," The New York Times (Syndicated by the Boston Globe among others), December 2018
"A Miami Gallery Joins the Top Ranks at Art Basel," The New York Times, December 2018
"News Networks Fall Short on Climate Story as Dolphins Die on Beach," by Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times, December 2018
"Florida's Got a Thing for Boat Parades," Bound by Water Column, Void Magazine, December 2018
"Return to Walker's Cay," Men's Journal, December 2018
"Not Up to Code, Walter Coker's Serpentine Life in Surfing and Journalism," The Surfer's Journal, November 2018
"Florida's Last, Best River," Bound by Water Column, Void Magazine, November 2018
"David Wolkowsky, Developer Hailed as Mr. Key West, Dies at 99," The New York Times, September 2018
"Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too," The New York Times, September 2018
"Print Is Dead? Not Here," by Ted Geltner, The New York Times, September 2018
"A Lien On Lincolnville," Indoek's St. Augustine Issue, August 2018
"St. Augustine Squares off Against Sea Level Rise," Void Magazine, July 2018
"This Man Is an Island," The Bitter Southerner, July 2018
"Conjuring Spirits in Florida," The New York Times, June 2018
"Ninety-Nine Acres of Land, What the Fight to Save a Parcel in St. Johns County Suggest About Florida," Void Magazine, June 2018
"Here Comes the Sun, The Sunshine State's Solar Quandary," Flamingo Magazine, May 2018
"The Short & Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler," The Bitter Southerner, January 2018
"South of America's Other Border, Exploring America's Southernmost Points in the Florida Keys," The Surfer's Journal, January 2018
"After Hurricane Irma, Guides Confront a Changing World," Outside Magazine, December 2017
"Backcountry Witchery, Flip Pallot's Legacy in the Outdoors," Flamingo Magazine, November 2017
"Plume Column: White Trash Cooking," Flamingo Magazine, November 2017
"A Photographic Conversation About Family, Absence, and What Ifs, Zora Murff and Rana Young," Hyperallergic, November 2017
“Pulling Pythons, Florida Veterans Forge a Relationship with the Everglades,” The National Magazine, November 2018
"Kingdom Come: L.A. Breaks, Kealamakia Naihe" At Large Magazine, September 2018
"Out of the Circuit and Off the Grid The Surfing Life and Times of Luke Davis," At Large Magazine, September 2018
"Upland Scrub, Pine Creek Cultivates the Ultimate Experience in Wing-shooting and Beyond," Flamingo Magazine, August 2017
“Land of Smiles, Chris Mottalini Interview,” Ain’t Bad Magazine, July 2017
“Robert Moses' Jones Beach, How the Planner and the Project Helped Create Eachother,” Curbed Magazine, June 2017
“Muted Monument, How Moses Levy Sought to Abolish Slavery, a Homeland for Jewish Refugees, and the First Distinct Settlement in Florida,” Flamingo Magazine, May 2017
"Normcore, Equipment polymath Justin Quintal and his multifaceted wave-sliding," The Surfer’s Journal, May 2017
“Obsessed: Permit in the Lower Keys, The Pursuit and Protection of our Most Adored and
Frustrating Fish” The Drake Magazine, April 2017
Lily Brooks Interview, Ain’t Bad Magazine, March 2017
Dane Reynolds on His Newest Surf Film, Fears of Obsolescence, and Being a Dad, Wax
Magazine, February 2017
In Grateful Seclusion, Walker Evans’ Photographs of Sarasota, Lux Magazine, February 2017
Exit Interview, Matthew McLendon on Contemporary Art, Sarasota Magazine, January 2017
On Becoming: Jamie Brisick’s Turn from Professional Surfing to Writing, At Large Magazine, December 2016
Up Toward Palehua, Modern Architecture on the World’s Newest Land Mass, At Large Magazine, December 2016
Recent Histories: New Photography from Africa, Camera Austria International Magazine, November 2016
The Inimitable Otherness of Stacy Kranitz, Ain’t Bad Magazine, October 2016
What Would Chick Do? Matthew McLendon Resists Classification, SRQ Magazine, October 2016
California Über Alles, Nolan Hall and the Annals of Surfing, At Large Magazine, September 2016
Jack Eats Your Words, Matthew Porter Visits Jack Pierson's Studio, At Large Magazine, September 2016
Headed South, The Long Road to Restoration in the Everglades, SRQ Magazine, August 2016
Justin Quintal Channeling the Beauty of the Slow Ride, Huck Magazine, June 2016
Games of Deferral: Mike Kelley’s Thirteen Seasons, At Large Magazine, June 2016
Away from Shore: Life’s a Gasssss for Oliver Clegg, At Large Magazine, May 2016
Awards, Fellowships, and Residencies
Best American Science and Nature Writing, Edited by Susan Orlean and Series Editor Jaime Green, 2025
Green Eyeshade Award for Environmental Reporting, 2025
Green Eyeshade Award for Light Feature Reporting, 2025
Sunshine State Award for Serious Feature Reporting, State and National, 2025
Sunshine State Award for Light Feature Reporting, Local & Community, 2025
Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant with Rolling Stone, 2025
Environmental Journalism Program, National Tropical Botanical Garden, 2024
Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Grant, 2024
Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant with Oxford American, 2024
Art Writer’s Grant Finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation, 2023
Green Eyeshade Award for Business Reporting, 2021
Key West Literary Seminar Residency, 2020, 2019, 2018
Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, 2020, 2016
James Beard Award for Profile, 2019
Research Fellowship, University of Florida, 2019
Writer’s Room Residency, The Betsy Hotel, 2019
Culture Builds Florida Grant, Division of Cultural Affairs, Dept. of State, 2019
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Finalist, 2017
Puffin Foundation Grant for Photography, 2016
John Ringling Towers Fellowship, 2015
Keyholder Residency, Lower Eastside Printshop, 2015
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Fellowship, 2015, 2014
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, 2015
Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2014
Select Exhibitions
What Was, What Wasn’t, David Castillo Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Miami, Florida, 2025
The Floral Impulse, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2023, Curated by Xaviera Simmons
I'm Not From Here, I Just Live Here, SPAACES (Solo Exhibition), Sarasota, Florida, Curated by Marianne Chapel and Anastasia Maracle
Cracker Politics, Art Center (Solo Exhibition), Sarasota, Florida, Curated by Dustin Juengel, 2017
The Lives of Forms, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, New York, Curated by Ksenia Nouril, 2016
Penthouse, New York, New York, Curated by Marianne Vital, 2016
Cracker Politics (Solo Exhibition), Spring/Break Art Fair, New York, New York, Curated by Alejandro Jassan, 2016
Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, New York, 2016
Misanthrope-NY, Mathew Gallery, New York, New York, Curated by Rob Kulisek, 2015
We Belong Together, The Silent Barn, New York, New York, 2015
American Masquerade (Two Person Exhibition with Robert Cepale), Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, New York, Curated by Nancy Barton, 2015
Autor de la table, Table de chevet at La Galerie de la Rotonde, Paris, France, Curated by Exposer Publier, 2015
Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York, New York, 2015
A Vital Link, Open Source Gallery, New York, New York, Curated by Steph Eckhardt and Vanessa Castro, 2014
Cracker Politics, The Limits of Colonial Knowledge (Solo Exhibition), Millennium Film Workshop, New York, New York, Curated by Matt Town, 2014
Recycled Origins, Living Gallery, New York, New York, Curated by Vanessa Castro, 2014
The Center Welcomes You, Firehouse, Johnson, Vermont, Curated by Adam Crosson and Lydia Rosenberg, 2014
Amateur Performativity, The Commons, New York, NY, Curated by Lyle Ashton Harris, 2014
Exposer Publier, Le Salon (Atelier Galerie), Paris, France, Curated by Leo Coquet and Caroline Sebilleau, 2014
Education
2014 New York University, Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude