Twelve-time honoree in Best American Travel Writing (2004-2021).
Three-time winner of Society of American Travel Writing awards.
Story included in Greatest Outside Magazine Adventure Stories Ever Told
Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, Runner-up, 2001
Geography of Madness voted Best Travel Books of the Decade
by Newsweek
Pushing the River (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2025)
Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2019)
The Geography of Madness: (Melville House, 2016)
B.A. Political Science, cum laude, St. Olaf College; May 1995