Thanks for stopping by. I’m a New Zealand-based writer and editor, working out of Wellington and sometimes the UK, offering editorial services and producing content.
I’ve spent 25 years in journalism, starting as an arts reporter and feature writer for the old Evening Post. I’ve since written hundreds of other feature articles and commentaries and interviews with the likes of Paul Auster, Audrey Hepburn, Billy Joel, Yotam Ottolenghi, Robbie Robertson and Joni Mitchell, and premiers of New Zealand, East Timor, Malaysia and Samoa.
My work appears in The Spectator, Quillette, The Australian and the New Zealand Listener. Around 120 or so of my long-gone Guardian pieces can be seen here. My past work for The Chronicle of Higher Education is in its (paywalled) archive. For newer work, see this website’s Media page.
I also edit newsletters and manuscripts, along with writing my own books, including The RNZ Cookbook, a glorious collection of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best chefs and writers, co-edited with Kathy Paterson. My latest work, based on more than 100+ interviews with colleagues and foes across the political spectrum, is a tough-but-fair unauthorised biography of former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern. And I pop up at local literary events, most recently the Auckland Writers Festival, where I did a marvellous session on food writing with William Sitwell from the Daily Telegraph.
Have something you’d like to sharpen or bring to life? I’d be delighted to hear from you via the Contact page.