Since 2000, I’ve been a staff writer for The Washington Post, where I’m a local enterprise reporter, and specialize in writing about the intelligence community. In 2007, I was on the team of Post reporters that covered the Virginia Tech massacre and that won the breaking news Pulitzer Prize a year later. I grew up in Louisville, Ky. and graduated in 2000 with an English degree from Princeton. In 2011, I earned a master’s degree in interactive journalism from American University.

Some of my most recent feature stories have been about: two women who served as U.S. intelligence operatives for the OSS and CIA and now are best friends at a Virginia retirement center; children of CIA employees who struggle to learn about their parents’ secrets; one woman who narrated the joys of her pregnancy and tragic post-birth illness through Facebook status updates; how Gawker ripped off one of my stories and the death of journalism; a military contracting company that teaches Marines how to talk conversationally with locals in warzones; the fish buying process for the Whole Foods grocery chain; and a profile of Christine Lagarde, the new head of the International Monetary Fund, and her time as a high schooler in Washington.

I live in Washington, D.C. with my wife Caroline. In our free time, we love traveling and scuba diving, preferably in places without sharks.