I’m a reporter with experience covering new American communities, immigration, housing, religion, the environment, breaking news and more — both domestically and internationally.
I grew up in Nepal, then earned degrees in history and forestry in the US. I speak English and Nepali fluently, and Spanish and Wolof at an intermediate level.
From 2014 until early 2021, I was based in Kathmandu and covered Nepali politics, the environment, human rights issues, and more for the Nepali and international press. In 2020, my colleague Abha Lal and I were short-listed for the True Story Award, the global journalism prize, for an investigation into the Nepali police’s mishandling of a murder case.
I’m mostly a writer, but I have some experience with audio and video production as well. I co-produced an episode for the Queens Memory Podcast 2022 about Nepalis living in Queens, and I worked with a group of talented youth podcasters to create the Bhutan Memory Podcast.
You can find examples of my best writing here. Besides The Columbus Dispatch, my work has appeared in The Diplomat, Yale Envrionment 360, Internazionale, World Politics Review, The Wire, Scroll.in, Himal Southasian, GEO magazine, Himal Khabarpatrika, The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur, Seto Pati, The Record, The Mott Haven Herald, Hunts Point Express and elsewhere.
Check out my old blog, about my experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, here .
Contact me at hi[at]petermgill [dot]com.
Special thanks to my great friend Jigdel for making me this website! (He’s the guy on the left.)
