HELLO.  I am a writer and journalist.

I cover insurgencies, global environmental problems, travel, and the geopolitics that underlie them all, for magazines like Harper’s, Outside, and Condé Nast Traveler, as well as Newsweek, GQ, Wired, Mother Jones,   the New York Times, and the Telegraph in London.

I specialize in Latin America, particularly Cuba. But I have worked from Patagonia to Phnom Penh, and Cape Town to Kazakhstan.

I am the author of The Boys from Dolores (2007), about what happened to Fidel Castro’s own schoolmates. It was named to the New York Times “Ten Best” list.

I also wrote Chasing Che, about riding my motorcycle across South America. The Independent of London very kindly called it “a classic of modern travel writing.”

Contact me via the Wylie Agency in New York, (212) 246-0069.

In Band-i-Amir, Afghanistan

(c. Seamus Murphy)

new work  • THE AMERICAN JIHADI, Daily Beast http://bit.ly/pzHLUy • POP GOES PERU, in Condé Nast Traveler  (http://bit.ly/kQiOmN) •THE NEXT BIN LADEN, a profile of US-born Anwar al-Awlaki (GQ: http://gqm.ag/khpsxv) • SAND STORM, about the revolution in Yemen (Outside, June, http://bit.ly/mGYGN5 ). On CNN (http://bit.ly/kbR23w and  http://bit.ly/k5tbh6), and NPR (http://n.pr/jaliCB)) • I OWN A BLOWGUN: Culture shock, from The Daily,  (http://bit.ly/hWWgNe) • 30 DAYS AS A CUBAN, or down and out in Havana on $15.08 (Harper's, Oct. 2010).