My work has appeared in a variety of magazines, newspapers, and reference volumes including Harper’s, the San Francisco Chronicle, Yoga Journal, Publishers Weekly, Amherst, Edible Pioneer Valley, The Encyclopedia Latina, The Companion to Modern Jewish Culture and Salt. Below are a few excerpts and links to recent work.

Nonfiction:
Books
Hammond Undercover: Going Green (March 2010)
A fun, informative book on the environment. For kids 7-12.

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Magazine and newspaper articles
“For the Love of Olives: The Real Food People of Conway” (Edible Pioneer Valley, Fall 2009)

It’s the stuff of Hollywood movies and best-selling memoirs: family leaves the grind behind to live among the old world locals and ancient olive groves of the Italian countryside. In 2000, Amy-Louise Pfeffer and Michael Sola, along with their then-two-year-old daughter Marta, did just that, leaving stable jobs in New Haven for the town of Città della Pieve in the Orvieto Hills of Umbria where they opened a bed-and-breakfast and learned the trade of olive oil. Several years later they brought this most delicious Umbrian harvest to the Pioneer Valley.
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Fiction:
Short Stories
“Homage to the Man-Eating Lions” (Sonora Review, Spring 2009)

We left behind everything—wives and children and low-slung dwellings—to make our fortune in this vast continent of darkness. Of savages and a few high-minded Britishers. We never intended to stay beyond the stint of our contract. In fact, only a few of us did. But these few carried on the tale of Tsavo, of what we poor souls endured. At what price the railroad was built and by whom.
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Translations:
Essays
“The Destiny of Borges” (Harper’s, April 2008)
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Commissioned Work:
Misc.
I write and create original content for brochures, websites, and development and marketing campaigns for corporations and institutions.
A Harvest of Attainments: A Student’s History of Amherst College [Download the PDF] (Amherst College, 2007)