What I am working on now
Three things at once, as usual: a beat, a translation and a notebook. Pitches and collaborations welcome.
In progress · reporting
The North Shore congregations that became social services
A long-running series for The Daily Item on the parishes, mosques and synagogues of Lynn and its neighbors, and the food, housing and immigration work they carry when nobody else does.
Reported in English and Russian, with interviews in both.
Translation · in edit
A book of Indonesian poetry
Translated from Indonesian into Russian — the poems that kept me company through four years of Asian studies and two postings. Looking for a publisher for a bilingual edition.
Notebook · open
Believing in public
Essays on faith as a political fact rather than a private one — the thread that runs from the Moluccas to the 2020 American campaign, and the thing I keep being sent to report.
Available for
A longer thread
The projects share a question: how do people build a common life across language, faith and migration? That question has taken me from a poetry collection to parish rooms and North Shore classrooms.