Covering issues of identity/inclusion for USA TODAY. Career human interest/lifestyles journalist and wannabe food writer passionate about storytelling, culture and subculture, trendsetters and iconoclasts and stories about we live. Previously with the Seattle Times, Phoenix New Times and The Dallas Morning News, where my two-year series about a young boy facing a life of blindness won the 2012 National Headliner Award for feature writing. Was also a contributor to The Seattle Times' coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers and ensuing manhunt for the suspect that won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.