My work focuses on global humanitarian crises, the impact of climate change on human health, the corporate financialization of American healthcare, the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs, and the interdependence of the world around and within us. I've received grants and fellowships from Berkeley, as a Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow, the National Institute for Healthcare Management, and Yaddo. I was a MacDowell Fellow in Literature in 2025, where I was awarded the Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship for Environmental Writing and the Calderwood Journalism Fellowship. I have a medical degree from Columbia University, completed residency training at Harvard, and practice in rural emergency departments in the desert southwest, where I am a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. I am represented by Katie Cacouris of The Wylie Agency. I'm currently at work on two book projects. A History of Our Present Illness is a collection of essays on comets, algorithms, probability, trauma, uncertainty, and loss, forthcoming from Godine. An Atlas of Human Suffering is a narrative non-fiction account of climate change as the defining public health crisis of our time.
