Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk.

Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life.

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"Tilt is a swift, exhilarating punch to the gut, the most embodied twenty-four hours of narrative I can remember reading. Through the eyes of the prickly, funny, and very pregnant narrator, we viscerally experience the surreal, unbearable, comic, and beautiful ways that humans behave in a crisis. The Road meets Nightbitch meets What to Expect When You're Expecting. I loved this novel."

—Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State and Mobility

About Me

I’m a climate journalist and a fiction writer. I live in Portland, Oregon.

I’ve written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more.

In 2021, I coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual’s potential impact on climate change.

My fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review, New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.

My debut novel, TILT, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in spring 2025.

Journalism

Our new reality on the West Coast, The New York Times

COVID exposed the cracks in the US food system, The Guardian

The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world, The Guardian

“Your generation got us in this mess”: children of big oil employees discuss the climate crisis with their parents, The Guardian

How to talk to children about climate change, WIRED

Holes in the social safety net leave millions without access to needed benefits, Newsweek

Q&A with Katharine Hayhoe, The Guardian

How to prepare for climate change, WIRED

US hotel of climate refugees with nowhere to go, The Guardian

The scientists hired by big oil that predicted the climate crisis, The Guardian

How parents can deal with climate distress, WIRED

Forget your carbon footprint. Let’s talk about your Climate Shadow, Mic

Where parents can get help with climate anxiety, WIRED

Can the tourism industry survive the climate crisis?, The Guardian

Children’s movies have been teaching us about climate change for decades, Mic

The fallacy of our Carbon Footprint, Yes! Magazine

The loudest park in Portland, Willamette Week

Eco-anxiety is manifesting in new moms, Marie Claire

Strengthen Your Empathy Muscle, The New York Times

Covid-19 and Death: Thinking the Unthinkable, The Washington Post

Is postpartum the most creative time of our lives?, Psyche

Fiction

No More Bodies of Water, Alaska Quarterly Review

The Last Word, New Orleans Review

Our Last Night in Tulum, The Idaho Review

In This Skin, Bellevue Literary Review

Men Learn to Swim in the Deep End, The Citron Review

The Hard Years, Carve Magazine

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