About me
I’m a magazine writer in Boston, a regular contributor to POLITICO Magazine, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, and Boston Magazine. I teach magazine journalism at Boston University.
I’m a former staffer for Boston Magazine and Cleveland Magazine. I’ve also written for The Boston Globe, TheAtlantic.com, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard Law Bulletin, and Agence France-Presse.
My interests and obsessions include politics, cities and transit, crime and policing, science, arts & culture, American history, and Eliot Ness.
I’ve written about a micronation, a microvillage, surfing Lake Erie, and going places you’re not supposed to go.
Erick Trickey 
Great article on Politico regarding millennials influencing mass transit decisions/strategies in Boston!
Erick, I liked your article on the US Army in Russia after WW 1. I first learned about the “Detroit Brigade” as they were called by the Detroit Free Press, when, as a U Mich grad student, I was taking time off from writing my dissertation by roaming the stacks. I happened to come upon a book about the army in Russia. I don’t think many people know about it.