about

I'm a journalist and editor based in Tokyo and New York City, currently serving as travel editor at Tokyo Weekender. Before that, I founded and led the web magazine at Tokyo Misfits. My work has appeared in Tokyo Weekender, The Japan Times, Matador Network, Ms. magazine and elsewhere. I write mostly about culture, subculture, travel and the outdoors.

For Tokyo Weekender, I've written about tattoo artists, bonsai masters, mountain huts, sex work and wartime politics.

For Ms. magazine, I ran a column on global feminist movements and reported on issues like birth control access and the politics of misogyny.

I also like to write essays and fiction. Recent work has appeared in Sonora Review and Panorama Journal.

I do freelance travel writing too, which is a fancy way of saying I'll go anywhere for a story. I've flown to Morocco to meet a stranger for a first date, gone undercover as a hostess in Tokyo's red-light district and trekked Salkantay to Machu Picchu entirely untrained.