Recent Work

• “Object Lesson: Tom Keifer Creates Art From Migrant Possessions Tossed in the Border Patrol Trash,” Tucson Weekly, January 14, 2021
• “The Written Word,” Official Travel Guide Tucson, January 2021
• “Wonder Makes Me Tell the Story,” University of Arizona Alumni Magazine, Winter 2020
• “Even amid a pandemic, ‘The Nutcracker’ must go on,” Tucson Weekly, December 17, 2020
• “Workspace on Display: Zoom through Open Studio Tours Without Leaving Home,” Tucson Weekly, November 26, 2020
• “Pop-Up Performances: Ballet Tucson Returns for Outdoor Shows,” Tucson Weekly, November 12, 2020
• “Style Guide: A virtual Modernism Week celebrates Black architect Paul R. Williams,” Tucson Weekly, November 5, 2020
• “State of the Art,” Tucson Weekly, October 14, 2020
• “ARTS 2020,” Tucson Weekly, September 3, 2020
• “A Tucson local’s guide to Arizona’s hippest city,” Boston Globe, March 13, 2020
• “A Temporary Respite,” Tucson Weekly, July 25, 2019
• “Still They Persisted,” Tucson Weekly, May 2, 2019
• “Arizona Sky Village’s residents have one rule: ‘Turn off your goddamned lights’,” The Guardian, April 13, 2017
• “The Chapters of El Charro,” Edible Baja, January/February 2017
• “Pivot Local,” Edible Baja, November/December 2017
• “Living Unprocessed,” University of Arizona Alumni Magazine, Summer 2017

Border Reporting

• “Detained & Deprived,” Edible Baja, September/October 2017
• “Yolanda in Limbo,” Tucson Weekly, March 12, 2015
  An excerpt from the book Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
• “D.O.A.,” Tucson Weekly, August 26, 2010
  July’s heat yields a near-record number of migrant deaths, as families wait for loved ones to be identified
• “Arizona Immigration Law Ignores Migrant Deaths,” Washington Post, April 27, 2010
• “The Death of Josseline,” Tucson Weekly, February 18, 2010
  An excerpt from the book The Death of Josseline
• “Unseen Prisoners,” University of Arizona Alumni Magazine, Winter 2010
• “The Panda Express Eleven,” Tucson Weekly, November 6, 2008
• “Mapping the Border,” Tucson Weekly, October 4, 2007
  Retired UA geosciences prof Ed McCullough scours the desert to document migrant trails–and save lives
• “Back to Mexico,” Tucson Weekly, September 6, 2006
  No More Deaths and the state of Sonora team up to give aid to unsuccessful border crossers
• “Marta’s Story,” Tucson Weekly, October 27, 2005
  On a scorching day in the Sonoran Desert, tenacity, humanity and teamwork save an injured woman’s life
• “The Death of Silverio Huinil Vail,” August 3, 2000
  A Guatemalan’s demise in the desert raises questions about U.S. border policy

Irish American Stories

• “The Saintly Dr. O’Leary,” Tucson Weekly, March 17, 2011
• “The Legendary Nellie Cashman,” Tucson Weekly, March 15, 2012
• “The City of Mud Boxes,” Tucson Weekly, March 11, 2010
• “The Good Father,” Tucson Weekly, March 12, 2009
• “The Sisters Who Came to Stay,” March 13, 2008
• “The Irish Orphan Abduction,” Tucson Weekly, March 15, 2007
• “Priestly Tales,” Tucson Weekly, March 16, 2006
• “Under a Green Banner,” Tucson Weekly, March 17, 2005
• “Margaret Sanger: Tucson’s Irish Rebel,” Tucson Weekly, March 11, 2004
• “The life of Timothy H. O’Sullivan,” Tucson Weekly, March 13, 2003
• “Clearing the Eire,” Tucson Weekly, March 14, 2002
• “Arizona Irish,” Tucson Weekly, March 15, 2001
• “A Saint Among Us,” Tucson Weekly, October 5, 2000
• “Up From Desperation,” Tucson Weekly, March 16, 2000

Arts Writing

• “Back to the Source,” Tucson Weekly, November 22, 2018
• “Desert Corridors,” Tucson Weekly, January 18, 2018
• “In Defense of Wildness,” Tucson Weekly, November 23, 2017
  Winner, first place, Arizona Press Club 2017 Community Arts Criticism
• “Stolen Goods,” Tucson Weekly, September 7, 2017
  Controversial and priceless de Kooning painting back in Tucson after 31 years
• “Island of Liberalism,” Tucson Weekly, July 3, 2008
• “The Life and Art of Morad Jasim,” Tucson Weekly, August 2, 2007
• “Unstill Life,” Tucson Weekly, October 18, 2007
• “Art From the Border,” Tucson Weekly, July 13, 2006
• “Master Builder,” Tucson Weekly, February 3, 2000
• “Remembering Rockfellow,” Tucson Weekly, January 27, 2000

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