SAMPLES of RECENT JOURNALISM
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Feature: Transit project that could reshape an American city is at a crossroads
Atlanta magazine, February 2024: Link
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What’s the deal with ATL’s biggest eyesore?
Atlanta magazine, August 2023: Link
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Travel story on Macon’s recent boom
Southbound magazine, June 2023: Link
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Appalachian Trail’s shorter sibling seeks rare honor (and more hikers)
Garden & Gun magazine, June 2023: Link
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Exploring (and nearly dying at) Georgia’s first mountainside bike park
Atlanta magazine, May 2023: Link
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“Baton Bob” is back
Atlanta magazine, April 2023: Link
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Love letter to a liquor store (9,000 shares on website)
Atlanta magazine, January 2023: Link
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One night at Northside Tavern
Atlanta magazine, September 2022: Link
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How Lamborghini is doubling down on Atlanta
Atlanta magazine, July 2022: Link
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Where—and how—Atlantans want to live now (OTP)
Atlanta magazine, April 2022: Link
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Travel story: Exploring Greenville, SC, by bicycle—and brewery
Atlanta magazine, March 2022: Link
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19 unofficial Atlanta BeltLine rules to live by; and April Fools (joke posts)
Urbanize Atlanta, March, April 2022: Link and link
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A year after infamous wall collapse, drama lingers
Urbanize Atlanta, December 2021: Link
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Taking Mercedes-Benz’s first EV for a spin
Atlanta magazine, November 2021: Link
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On Hawks fandom, now that everybody cares
Atlanta magazine, May 2021: Link
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Deep dive: Decatur’s funky, effective, mercilessly ridiculed planter boxes
Urbanize Atlanta, May 2021: Link
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The rise of Jordache Avery, a rare Black home architect in Atlanta
Atlanta magazine, April 2021: Link
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The pandemic’s impact, one year later
Atlanta magazine, April 2021: Link
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30 years later, remembering a legendary Atlanta megaproject that fell apart
Urbanize Atlanta, April 2021: Link
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How to safely bike with your kids in a city built for cars
Atlanta magazine, March 2021: Link
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A look on the bright side of god-awful 2020
Atlanta magazine, December 2020: Link
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One of Atlanta’s largest remaining forests has been saved. Now what?
Atlanta magazine, December 2020: Link
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Exploring an unlikely N. GA business success story—at 120 mph
Atlanta magazine, November 2020: Link
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Travel story: The captivating (and naturally socially distanced) Outer Banks
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 2020: Link
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Inside the condo rebirth of a landmark church
Atlanta magazine, October 2020: Link
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How the city’s development boom is lifting up local artists
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 2020: Link
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The Airbnb of backyard pools is making a splash in ATL
Atlanta magazine, August 2020: Link
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Venturing up to a modern mountain home community like no other
Atlanta magazine, August 2020: Link
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Why protestors fear Georgia’s police protection bill
Atlanta magazine, July 2020: Link
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HOOKED: The rise of vaping
Georgia State Research Magazine, Spring 2020: Link
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On the virtues of walking around this city in a pandemic
Atlanta magazine, April 2020: Link
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The Atlantans series: interviews with ATLTVHEAD and one incessant runner
Atlanta magazine, 2020
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Can a “new Stone Mountain Village” overcome its racist history?
Curbed Atlanta, February 2020: Link
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Master of a dying Gullah Geechee culture craft
Jekyll Island magazine, 31-81, winter 2020: Link
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Waiting Game: How Atlanta’s building boom can make homebuying a high-stakes wager
Curbed Atlanta, November 2019: Link
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“Confessions of a yardworkaholic”
Atlanta magazine’s HOME, September 2019: Link
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Contributions to the sterling, seedy “After Dark” issue
Atlanta magazine, September 2019: Link
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A clueless fisherman from the big city tries to catch his own dinner
Jekyll Island magazine, 31-81, summer 2019: Link
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Feature: “101 reasons to love Atlanta”
Curbed Atlanta, May 2019: Link
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Rare earths discovery: potential gold mine, or environmental hazard?
Atlanta magazine, April 2019: Link
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Five years after Mercedes-Benz Stadium broke ground, is the Westside revival working?
Curbed Atlanta, February 2019: Link
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Are Roswell Red Shirts impassioned preservationists, or the NIMBYs from hell? **
Curbed Atlanta, December 2018: Link
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The bittersweet stories of DACA recipients
Atlanta magazine, October 2018: Link
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The Atlanta Hawks at age 50
Atlanta magazine, October 2018: Link
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Gentrification’s impact on historic Old Fourth Ward **
Curbed Atlanta, September 2018: Link
** Finalist stories: Atlanta Press Club's Award of Excellence, Daily Division, 2018
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Saving Frank Lloyd Wright's only Florida gem
Garden & Gun magazine, June 2018: Link
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Pushing a $150K Porsche 911 to its limits, for research
Southbound magazine, May 2018: Link
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Grant Henry's next big (ad)venture
Atlanta magazine, February 2018: Link
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The remarkable career of a forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright pupil
HOME magazine, December 2017: Link
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Mini profiles: the 2017 Groundbreakers project
Atlanta magazine, November 2017: Link
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Hollywood's big plans for one of Atlanta's largest, most historic sites
Atlanta magazine, November 2017: Link
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Popular Atlanta performer Luke Eden risks everything to become Lucy Eden
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 2017: Link
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How Dorsey Jones survived child sex trafficking to become a source of hope for girls
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 2017: Link
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Tech-savvy bike share is a hit in the 'burbs
Atlanta magazine, June 2017: Link
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The MARTA Army wants you!
Atlanta magazine, April 2017: Link
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One Square Mile series: snapshots of great little places all around ATL
Atlanta magazine, February, March, April 2017
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Can this failed Ghost Towne ever be revived?
Atlanta magazine, March 2017: Link
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Thoughts on losing a Super Bowl in the most crushing way
Atlanta magazine, February 2017: Link
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Swimming with whale sharks — as PTSD therapy
Atlanta magazine, December 2016: Link
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There's hope for a streetcar that went clang-clang-clang
Atlanta magazine, November 2016: Link
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What it's like to fight fires for free—and wash the city's tallest buildings
Atlanta magazine One Square Mile series, October/November 2016
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Band of Daughters: exploring a nightmarish World War II POW march
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 2016: Link
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How the Stuff You Missed in History Class ladies became unlikely podcast stars
Atlanta magazine, August 2016: Link
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An afternoon at West Georgia's surreal scratch-off mecca
Atlanta magazine, August 2016: Link
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What it's like to survive a rattlesnake bite and lightning strike
Atlanta magazine HEALTH issue, July 2016
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A maverick developer invested in this 1960s hellhole and changed the city forever
Atlanta magazine, June 2016: Link
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The virtues of urban cycling (with your kids)
Atlanta magazine, May 2016: Link
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Ace private detective can't find the answer he wants most
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 2016: Link
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The Gentrifier*
Atlanta magazine, March 2016: Link
* Winner: Atlanta Press Club's Award of Excellence, Print/Online Nondaily Division, 2017
* Winner: Green Eyeshade Awards (SPJ contest recognizing best journalism in Southeast), First Place, General News Writing: Magazines - 2016
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Talking modern home architecture in Atlanta
Atlanta magazine, March 2016: Link
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Reclaimed Lives: the story of "Sons of Sawdust"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 2016: Link
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Getting drunk. For work. In the name of research
Atlanta magazine, January 2016: Link
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Ultrafast Internet wars descend upon ATL
Atlanta magazine, January 2016: Link
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The world's busiest airport has a smuggling problem. Now what?
Atlanta magazine, December 2015: Link
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How Atlanta's most notorious graffiti artist became a global art star
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 2015: Link
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The Southeast's first "urbanburb" is fetching Manhattan-like rents
Atlanta magazine, August 2015: Link
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Born again: the trend of flipping intown churches
Atlanta magazine, May 2015: Link
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Unique program spares U.S. veterans from prison. Or worse.
Atlanta magazine, February 2015: Link
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The Many Lives of Ponce City Market (cover story)
Living Intown magazine, January 2015: Link
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A man named "Sister Louisa" and his famous bar called "Church"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 2014: PDF
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The story of Pete The Cat, a feline phenomenon
Atlanta magazine, September 2014: Link
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The allure of calling Atlanta's Beltline home
Living Intown magazine, September 2014: Link
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World's largest Muppets collection gets a $14 million facelift
Atlanta magazine, July 2014: Link
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Son of architectural icon John Portman comes home to make his own mark
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 2014: PDF
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How it really feels to: get shot; shoot someone; clean up after death, etc.
Atlanta magazine, May 2014: Link
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Stay-at-home mom is getting rich off romance, changing the book industry
Indianapolis Monthly magazine, February 2014: Link
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The remarkable life and death of Emory whiz Victor Le
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 2013: Pages: One, Two and Three
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A disabled pool shark aims for world-championship gold
Creative Loafing (Atlanta), November 2013: Link
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Cruising the 'burbs with "the greatest young race car driver in the world"
Atlanta magazine, October 2013: Link
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A baby girl's scalding accident inspires tremendous positive change
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 2013: Pages: One, Two and Three
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Outside Atlanta, the “anti-suburb” taps Sweden for inspiration
Arts ATL, August 2013: Link
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Indiana's oldest beer rises from the grave — again
Indianapolis Monthly magazine, July 2013: Link
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Catching up with pastor Montell Jordan
Atlanta magazine, June 2013: Link
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The Larry Flynt shooting, 35 years later
Atlanta magazine, March 2013: Link
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Inside the humbling "Brain Injury Clubhouse"
Atlanta magazine, October 2012: Link
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The tragic disappearance of 18-year-old Justin Gaines
Atlanta magazine, March 2012: Link
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Goofing with MattyB, a pint-sized rapper from the 'burbs
Atlanta magazine, December 2011: Link
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Who brutally murdered the wealthy developer's wife?
Gwinnett Daily Post, 2012: Link
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Gracious, old-school barber champions a dying art
Gwinnett Daily Post, 2012: Link
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Young husband confronts the unthinkable: a quadruple amputation
Gwinnett Daily Post, 2012: Link
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What it's like to witness an execution
Ascent, 2011: Link
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SAMPLE FICTION PUBLICATIONS
"Down and Out at the Breast-feeding School" — Creative Loafing, Fiction Contest, 2013: Link
"Missing Athena" — The Baltimore Review, 2012: Link
"Blood Allies" — Eastown Fiction, 2012: Link