Here’s a brief rundown of my writing and journalism work:

I have written several books and my essays have been included in a number of anthologies. My most recent book is the critically acclaimed short story collection Saving Rome.
My essay Driving Lessons, written during my writer’s residency at the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program in 2008, will be included in Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction. published by Thomas Allen publishers in 2009.

My reports, documentaries and essays on Italy air regularly on:
CBC radio and TV, American Public Media’s Marketplace Radio, NPR, World Vision Report, BBC, The World, Deutsche Welle, Austrian Broadcasting Corp, and Network Europe.

As well, I produce documentaries out of Africa, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East.
Over the years, I’ve written for many papers and magazines including (and in no particular order) the Toronto Star, CBC Arts Online, Globe and Mail, Star-Ledger, South China Morning Post, Salon.com, Walrus Magazine, Nature Magazine and enRoute.

I’ve won a number of awards. Most recently, my documentary from Cambodia called You Must Remember This was a finalist in the 2008 New York Festivals International Radio Broadcasting Awards.

I have an Honours B.A. from McGill University and Masters from Columbia University Journalism School, where I was awarded a Pulitzer Fellowship.

I’m fluent in Italian and French.

For the past decade or so, I’ve been based in Rome, returning often to Toronto where I grew up.