He worked as the City Life editor of Monday Magazine and managing editor of explore: Canada's Outdoor Magazine, and his freelance travel writing and personal essays have appeared in numerous regional, national, and international publications. His "nonfiction novel" Fatal Tide: When the Race of a Lifetime Goes Wrong came out in 2008 (Penguin Canada). For nonfiction, he is a big fan of the 4 J's: Joan Didion, Jon Krakauer, Jonathan Raban, and John Vaillant. His all-time favourite book: John Updike's The Poorhouse Fair. He has most recently been reading the stories, novels, and essays of Amos Oz as background research for an investigative-travelogue-historical-memoir about the rise and fall and rise of Israel's kibbutz movement.