About Me
Hello. I am a Miami-based playwright, short-story writer and journalist. My writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Sierra Magazine, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and elsewhere.
As a member of the editorial team that covered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida for the Sun Sentinel, I am a winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. I left the newspaper in November 2018, and am currently employed as the publications director at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
My plays include “Jenna & the Whale,” written with Vanessa Garcia (“The Amparo Experience”) and “Purple Hearts.” Both plays are in development with the producers of Broadway’s “The Inheritance,” “American Son,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Anastasia,” among other shows.
Finally, I live blocks from Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood with my wife and dogs. It’s a good place to be.
Journalism
South Florida Sun Sentinel
The Atlantic
Nature Writing That Sees Possibility in Climate Change
Internet Slang Is More Sophisticated Than It Seems
Stories That Ask Whether Humans and Nature Were Always Incompatible
The Humane Way to Cover School-Shooting Anniversaries
How Climate Change Has Influenced Travel Writing
Dave Cullen’s New Book on the Parkland Shooting Is Surprisingly Illuminating
The Washington Post
Patti Smith looks back at heartbreaking year
With ’Turbulence,’ a BBC Radio show finds new life
‘Mostly Dead Things’ captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes
In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ the end of the world is only part of the problem
C Pam Zhang’s ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ brilliantly reimagines the cowboy narrative
Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies
Playwriting
