About
My work has appeared in such publications as Slate, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Foreign Policy, ESPN.com, Golf World, GOOD, Budget Travel, Economist.com, Outside’s GO, Business China (part of The Economist), Baseball America and the South China Morning Post. In 2008, a piece of mine was featured in the book Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, an anthology of the best of participatory sports journalism.
I have been writing professionally for daily newspapers and magazines since I was 17 years old. Before moving to China in 2002, I spent four years writing for The Times of Gainesville, Georgia, located 45 minutes northeast of Atlanta. At The Times, I wrote the popular Sporting Life column, a weekly foray into participatory journalism. For the sake of a good story, I took part in activities like bull riding, sky diving, ice climbing, “handgrabbing” for giant catfish — even nude water volleyball — and lived to write about it.
I won the Georgia Sports Writers Association’s top prize in Outdoors Writing four years in a row. In 2001, I was named Georgia’s Best Sports Columnist. I have been recognized nationally several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors for my Enterprise Reporting. I have also earned the top prize in Sports Writing from both the Georgia Press Association and the Georgia Associated Press.
In June 2005, I became the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com, a city-centric group blog about Shanghai. Shanghaiist is one of the larger websites in the highly-successful Gothamist.com network of city blogs.
I live in a French Concession lane house with my wife Bliss Khaw and our dogs Ozzie and Tux.
Photo by Ariana Lindquist