I am a British freelance journalist based in Lima, Peru, but regularly roaming across Latin America. Environmental stories are my speciality but I also write about most other topics under the sun, from food and travel to the drugs trade, political corruption and inequality.
I contribute regularly to The Washington Post and The Telegraph, and my reporting has appeared in numerous other outlets, including US News & World Report, Vice, The Independent, USA Today, Foreign Policy, The Spectator, The New Republic, GlobalPost, The Guardian and on NPR. My writing in Spanish has been published in Spain’s El País newspaper. I have also been interviewed on air numerous times, including by the BBC, CNN and NPR as well as Peruvian TV and radio.
I wrote and presented the 2020 Audible docuseries El Impenetrable, an environmental murder mystery set in the Chaco tropical dry forest of northern Argentina. I am also a three-time recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, for my 2012 series on climate change across Latin America, my 2016 look at counter-narcotics policies in South America and my 2023-24 trilogy of stories for The Washington Post on indigenous cultural survival and logging in the Peruvian Amazon. I also fix for documentaries and factual television, and carry out political and business risk research and analysis on Peru and neighbouring countries.
Originally from London, I previously lived in Mexico City for four years and California’s San Francisco Bay Area for six years before settling in Lima. I am bilingual in English and Spanish and have a MA in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley. A lifelong foodie and outdoorsman, I climb, mountaineer and surf, and am equally at home dining in Lima’s most acclaimed restaurants or bivvying on a glacier 17,000ft above sea level.