I’m a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C.

I write about all things space: astronomy, human spaceflight, robotic exploration, politics, and policy. I also write about climate change and other more earthly matters.

Before going freelance, I worked at The Atlantic for nearly 10 years, first as a breaking-news blogger and then as a staff writer. I’ve reported from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX’s launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, and the European Space Agency’s spaceport in French Guiana.

I love writing about space through the lens of human emotion and exploring what I call Space Feels. In 2023, my story “The Existential Wonder of Space” won the Jonathan Eberhart Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences. I’m featured in a display at Arizona's renowned Lowell Observatory, under the heading “Communicating Wonder.”

If you’d like to work together, get in touch!