Three-time winner of Society of American Travel Writing awards.
Story included in Greatest Outside Magazine Adventure Stories Ever Told
Geography of Madness voted Best Travel Books of the Decade
by Newsweek
Twelve-time honoree in Best American Travel Writing (2004-2021).
Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, Runner-up, 2001
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