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Out of the Wild
On a quest for sustainable salmon, I tracked a wild Alaskan sockeye from net to plate. What I learned surprised me — and changed how I shop for salmon.
2026 National Magazine Award Winner, Lifestyle Journalism
SATW — Lowell Thomas Award — Silver
The Sunday Long Read
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The Alchemists
Teenage girls led a cycling revolution in Afghanistan, where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.
The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2025
The Sunday Long Read — Editors’ Favorite
Longreads — Weekly Top 5
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NOEL + LEON
What happens when two strangers trust the ride of their lives to the magic of the universe
The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2021
New York Times — Sidney Awards
SATW — Lowell Thomas Award
Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting — Finalist
Apple News Audio — Best of 2020
Longform — Best of 2020
The Sunday Long Read — Best of 2020
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The Talisman
An unexpected item left behind in a box of treasures turns out to be a good-luck charm in the backcountry.
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The Persimmon Tree at Stand Five
My Japanese-American grandma spent her final years on a hunting preserve in Alabama. She taught me how to be comfortable as an anomaly in the South.
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My Natal Stream
Chasing Chinook — and family memories — in the Waters of Alaska
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The King of Tides
A story of love, loss, and salmon in the wilds of Alaska
Best American Sports Writing 2016
SATW — Gold Lowell Thomas Award
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The Crossing
Accompanying one fish from river to plate, an angler wrestles with life, death, and her duty as part of the food chain.
International Association of Culinary Professionals — Food Writing Award
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River of Dreams
Eighteen years after failing to catch a king salmon with my father, I went back to Alaska to try again.
A sequel to The King of Tides
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Memory of a Goldfish
My son is leaving home, my mother is moving in, and I just want to stay afloat.
A dispatch from the sandwich years, caring for children and parents with Alzheimer’s disease -
How Bo Jackson on a Bike Reunited Alabama After a Record-Breaking Storm
The GOAT created a bike ride to help tornado-damaged Alabama. No one knew what it’d do — or how it would end.
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Death Row Inspired This Art Exhibit
By painting their final meals before execution, an artist humanized people sentenced to capital punishment.
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Hustle & Float
My month of doing 100 wheelies a day.
Featured in The Sunday Long Read, Longreads, and the Politico Newsletter
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8600 FT documentary
A 90-minute documentary about one mountain-biker’s quest to climb the Whole Enchilada, a legendary downhill trail in Moab, Utah. 1.2 million views
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Braydon Bringhurst vs The Beast
A complementary magazine feature released in concert with 8600 FT film
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Freedom, Wyoming
For a summer project, the New York Times gave sportswriters 900 words and a theme: Freedom.
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The Redemption of Artis Monroe
His stories were constantly shifting. But the bikes he fixed behind bars were real.
Best American Sports Writing 2019
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What Stands in a Storm
In times of trouble, the things that tear our world apart reveal what holds us together.
SATW — Gold Lowell Thomas Award
Media Industry Newsletter Awards
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Take These Broken Wings
He lost both hands and feet at the age of 21. But his hardest trial was vying for a spot on the Paralympic team.
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A Rescue Pup with the Soul of a Fish
The last swim of a dog named Fish in a river mis-named Snake.
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The Art of Losing
Training seven days a week for the race of our lives — with full-time jobs and a young child — we learned that we had more to gain from losing than from winning.
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Angle of Repose
What started out as rogue trailbuilding by rowdy freeriders in Jackson Hole has been transformed by trust into one of North America's greatest templates for community cooperation.
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How Many Lives Can a Single Bike Change?
The story of a mountain bike that wouldn’t stop giving.
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Equal Prize Money Is Great—But Only Half the Story
In 2018, surfing became the latest sport to close the prize-money gender gap. So where does that put us on the greater path to equality in sports?
The $37 Billion Oil Spill
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we wanted to know whether the Gulf had recovered—and how much remains to be done.
Outside
Marianne Vos Is The Boss
The world’s best bike racer is a woman and an inadvertent activist, fighting for gender equity.
Outside
The Last Faulkner
A rare, inside glimpse of a sometimes-impenetrable Southern literary icon, from his niece.
Southern Living
300 Miles with
Bo Jackson
A charity ride with Bo Jackson, Lance Armstrong, Picabo Street, Ken Griffey, Jr., and Al Joyner.
Bicycling
Mississippi’s Literary Trail
Take a road trip through the Mississippi cities that shaped the literary works of Southern scribes from Williams to Welty.
Southern Living
Kathryn Bertine Won’t Be Stopped
Publishers told her the world didn’t need a book about women fighting for change. She knew they were wrong.
Bicycling
When Syncopation Rocks a Nation
An analytical riff on the next-level narrative craftsmanship of Hamilton, a storytelling masterpiece.
Nieman Storyboard
The Real Reason There’s No Tour de France for Women
The long, convoluted struggle for a top-flight—and lasting—European women’s stage race.
My Little Bayou: In Praise of the Backwaters
Some of the best parts of the Gulf? The inlets and channels leading to it.
Garden & Gun
Fairhope, Alabama Has Stories to Tell
Alabama’s literary hideaway mixes laid-back pleasures, Gulf seafood, and plenty of creativity
Garden & Gun
Zara’s Heart
They thought they were raising kids. Then they met the little girl with the too-big heart.
Gulfshore Life
Rinsing the Pearls
A generations-old kitchen task—washing rice—becomes a meditation on my Japanese-American family.
Cooking Light
