I’m a writer whose work has appeared in the Iowa Review, The Yale Review, the New England Review, the Georgia Review, and others. My essays “Alice and Jean,” “Lighter than Air” and “Parrot on a Stone Plinth” were awarded Notable distinctions in the Best American Essays of 2019, 2021, and 2023. My debut essay collection was a finalist for the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize in 2024, and I was the recipient of the 2019 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. I’m currently at work on an essay collection called Coming of Age in The Capitalocene.

I grew up in Indianapolis, cycled through twenty-one apartments in New York City, and currently live in New Haven, CT. Before becoming a writer, I spent a decade as a composer and curator of electroacoustic music. I wrote a one-act electroacoustic opera, Consolations, based on Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy, and performed live audiovisual sets at a wide variety of venues and galleries in New York City. I also curated a year-long concert series called Sound Art; these “audible adventures” (Steve Smith, Time Out) culminated in a six-hour concert in Washington Square Park that brought contemporary experimental music to a broader public.

I hold a B.A. in English and Music from Yale and a Ph.D in Music Composition from the City University of New York. I’m currently a Lecturer in Writing at Yale.