In New York for Overseas Press Club Awards
I took the bus from central Pennsylvania this morning to New York for the Overseas Press Club Awards. I was lucky enough to be cited in the Madeline Dane Ross Award category for best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition for my VQR story “Hope’s Coffin,” about young [...]
VQR Web Exclusive: Easter in Gaza
I had been itching to do one last story from Gaza before I left earlier this month, and Easter in Gaza gave me the perfect opportunity. The ceremony was pure magic, and it was truly bizarre to find such a colorful and festive undertaking happening in the middle of the night in the Old City [...]
Video: On Patrol with Apache Company
Check out the video I posted to the VQR’s blog of a counterinsurgency patrol through the Tangi Valley with 2nd Platoon Apache Company, 2-87 Infantry Regiment 10th Mountain Division. The platoon is profiled in my story, “The Path to Yaghestan.”
Launching new site!
As soon as I figure out how to navigate Wordpress, this site should really start to take shape. Stay tuned.
VQR Spring 2010: “The Path to Yaghestan”
The Spring 2010 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review came out on April 1. The story and photos that resulted from my October 2009 trip to Wardak Province, Afghanistan, are finally in print!
