I am a Seattle-based journalist who has worked as a reporter or editor for everything from the Houston Chronicle to the Newsweek - just finished writing for the latter in February 2023. I've also written extensively for the Washington Post Sunday Magazine as well as the Seattle Times travel section. I've published six books, the latest being In the House of the Serpent Handler, a nonfiction work about 20-something Appalachian pentecostal serpent handlers who use Facebook to publicize their exploits. During the 2014-2015 academic year, I occupied the Snedden chair as a journalism professor at the University of Alaska/Fairbanks, so am interested in all things Arctic!