I am a co-host/writer/producer of the NPR podcast White Lies, which was a 2020 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting and the 2023 recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast. Other stuff: I wrote a book called The Perfect Fruit, which tells the creation story of the pluot, and my work has appeared in Slate, Gourmet, the Oxford American, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. For a couple of years in the mid-2010s, I served as the creative producer of Whitman, Alabama, an experimental documentary that was a 2018 Emmy nominee in the New Approaches in Documentary category.Since 2010, I have worked as a senior instructor of journalism at The University of Alabama, and as a founder/board chair of the Desert Island Supply Co., a nonprofit creative writing program for students in Birmingham, Ala.
