I am an award-winning freelance writer based in Boston. I write longform narrative nonfiction, profiles, book reviews and essays for the Guardian, the Times, New Statesman magazine and others. I love telling true stories about people and big ideas, the ideas that shape our lives and how we see the world.

I have written longform stories on a wide range of issues: the incredible science and complex ethics of caring for babies born on the cusp of viability, Sam Bankman-Fried and the delusions of effective altruism, the British psychiatrists who reject the idea of mental illness, and the problem of sexual harassment in schools. I’ve written about the challenges of modern parenting, and the cult of perfectionism, loneliness among young people and the rise in adult ADHD, why reality may be a controlled hallucination, and the surprising science of why some people hear voices. 

I once spent six months following the story of a Sudanese refugee family as they were resettled from Egypt to the UK, and almost as long hanging around an isolated motorway hotel in the North of England to uncover what happened when it became a refugee shelter overnight, turning bar staff into front-line aid workers and forcing political enemies to live side by side. I’ve reported from Libya, Egypt and Iraq, where I wrote about the courageous and desperate efforts by Yazidi families to rescue their relatives who had been kidnapped enslaved by the Islamic State group.

My writing has won two British Society of Magazine Editors awards and the 2016 Amnesty International Award for best feature. I have been shortlisted for the Kurt Schork awards for freelance journalists for my Middle East reportage and was a runner-up in the 2015 FT/Bodley Head essay competition.

I am available for commission for book reviews, interview and features. I also frequently interview authors and experts on stage, and for podcasts.