About

I'm a journalist and writer with more than 25 years of experience. I specialize in investigative and long-form reporting for video, audio and print. In 2023, a podcast series I created, reported and wrote called Earwitness was released by Lava for Good and named one of the 30 best true crime podcasts of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

I’ve done extensive reporting on Alabama’s prison system with work appearing in The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, The Bitter Southerner and The Appeal. I publish a newsletter on Substack called Moth to Flame that includes my reporting and essays written at the intersection of justice, injustice and life in Alabama.

I hold a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and was named a 2018-2019 Pen America Writing for Justice fellow.

When I'm not asking questions, writing stories, or teaching, I'm likely reading, baking or disco dancing!

My agent is Julia Eagleton at Janklow & Nesbit. Her email is JEagleton@janklow.co.uk.