About
I’m freelance journalist based in Montreal. Take a look around and you’ll find articles about science, the environment and medicine–as well as stories about Montreal’s world-champion Scrabble players, a profile of the only biologist employed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the elusive American eel.
My articles have been published in Nature, New Scientist, Discover, Seed, CR magazine, Canadian Geographic, American Archeology, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Canadian Medical Association Journal, National Geographic News (online) and MSNBC.com. I also write for YES Magazine (a kids’ science magazine) and contribute to Free Radicals, a weekly radio program broadcast on CKUT, in Montreal. Occasionally, I take photographs for my stories. My photos of the Arctic appeared in PLoS and online at The Gazette.
In addition to all this, I am on the board of the Canadian Science Writers Association and have mentored students in science writing at McGill University.
How did I get here? I earned a Master’s degree in Biology from McGill University studying the renal and bone phenotypes of the NPT2 knockout mouse. Research was fulfilling, but I opted for a career swap and went back to school. In 2002, I graduated from Boston University with a Master’s in Science and Medical Journalism.
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