Atlanta Magazine
Feature story
March 2026
A canned oyster craze nearly collapsed the wild population along the Southeast coast by the 1940s. The state was anxious about allowing harvesting again, but in 2019, the Georgia General Assembly opened the state’s 110-mile coastline to privately leased aquaculture.
Places Journal
The visual history of the American South is intertwined with the legacies of slavery, poverty, environmental degradation, and racism. Joshua Dudley Greer’s The Makeshift City reflects this all — but at a slant. The book is a time capsule of contemporary Atlanta, one of the largest and most progressive cities in the South. LINK
Arts ATL
Film review
March 2026
Trees in Atlanta have a public relations problem. They don’t get as much credit for the good deeds they provide to us as they should. Even worse, our tree canopy is inexorably shrinking — it is estimated that close to half an acre of trees are lost each day, mostly to urban development.
The Lexicon of Food
Text + Photography
Spring 2023
Pawpaw is an elusive fruit. It comes when you least expect it. The first time I encountered pawpaw was last spring, as I enlisted the help of a permaculturist friend to redesign my front yard with native and edible fruits.
“And here, we could plant a pawpaw tree,” Rebecca told me, showing me a spot under the canopy of our mature maple tree.
“A what?,” I replied.
“A pawpaw tree, they produce delicious fruits.” LINK
Arts ATL
Exhibit review
March 2024
Photography’s relationship with truth has long been debated, and our increasing reliance on artificial intelligence is bringing even more complexity to the subject. And yet, we still rely on photographs to make sense of the world and address the difficult issues of our times. LINK
Atlanta Studies
Essay
December 2019
There is something poetic and mysterious about this word, monadnock – pronounced “mə-NAD-nok.” Ask geologists and they will tell you that monadnock refers to a stone outcrop that rises out of the surrounding landscape. Think of it as a hard lump of earth that has been worn away but at a slower rate than its surroundings. LINK