I write critical and personal essays, reportage, and fiction, which have appeared or are forthcoming in Ninth Letter, the New Yorker online, the Believer, the Atlantic, the Nation, the Drift, Guernica, Gawker, Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE, In These Times, Literary Hub, Marie Claire, and others.
I am also at work on my first novel. My work has received support from Millay Arts, Bread Loaf, and Vermont Studio Center. I am a current student at Warren Wilson. My agent is Ali Lake at O’Connor.
Below, a selection of my published nonfiction.
ESSAYS & REVIEWS
“The Lost Redemption Arc,” GAWKER
“Walled Gardens,” THE BELIEVER
“The Politics of Optimism,” LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
“Why Purity Culture Won’t Save Us,” CATAPULT
“Harper Lee & the Myth of a Post-Racial America,” LITERARY HUB
REPORTING & INTERVIEWS
“Sometimes People Write Poetry with Their Feet,” THE NEW YORKER
“Industrial Hog Farming & Environmental Racism,” STIR JOURNAL
“The Real Knockouts of Women’s Boxing,” THE ATLANTIC
“Wild, Wild Horses: Iceland’s Rite of the Round Up,” DEPARTURES
“How Federal Prisoners Might Become Appalachia’s New ‘Black Gold,’” SCALAWAG