Writing

New

Outside Magazine – How My Dog Saved My Husband After a Ski Accident

Selected Essays 

Outside Magazine – How a Skin Cancer Diagnosis Changed My Relationship with the Outdoors

The New York Times – We Thought We Were Saving the Planet but We Were Planting a Time Bomb

The Globe & Mail – After I was diagnosed with the same type of skin cancer that killed my father, I had to alter my relationship with the sun

The New Yorker – “Bear” Is About Much More Than Having Sex with a Bear

Lenny Letter – Neanderthals Were Women, Too

The Millions – A Forgotten Bestseller: The Saga of John Williams’s Stoner

Short Story 

Jude the Brave — My short story won a Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards


A Few Interviews

Interview Magazine — From Kashmir to Hollywood, Author Priyanka Mattoo Has Seen the World

Esquire – Ireland's Most Notorious Murderer Speaks At Last

The Millions – Artifacts of the Present: The Millions Interviews Emily St. John Mandel

The Millions — How Should a Writer Be? An Interview with Sheila Heti

I do on stage interviews for The Salon Series at The Toronto Public Library

Assembled Words 

I’m a monthly contributor to the Op-Ed Section of The Globe & Mail.

Summer, Before the Internet

I’m not the only one

I will never forget

The Floods of September

Also for:

The Guardian – 'There's nothing to prepare you': what it's like to witness an execution

The New York Times – Last Words, a compilation of executed inmates last statements for the Op-Ed section
– Featured on Boing BoingAndrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish in the Atlantic Monthly, The Michael Smerconish Show and NPR’s national show ‘Here & Now’ hosted by Robin Young

The Alpinist – She Climbed Alone

Brick Magazine – Black squirrels make a very nice pudding (Issue 92, Winter)


Lists 

The Millions – Five Ways Being a Writer and Professional Skateboarder Are the Same

The Daily Beast – How to Survive – Five Stories About Unlikely Survivors

P.S. We like lists because we don’t want to die — Umberto Eco


Emeritus Staff writer at The Millions