Writing
I'm trained as a fiction writer (M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh) and have published fiction, poetry, essays, and genre-bending work in journals and publications including Guernica, diagram, Glimmer Train, The New Guard Review's BANG!, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Adroit Journal, and Art Review.I also write and produce audio documentary, and I'm a founder of the storytelling collective Cool Molecules Media.
Recent fragments
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A few winter collages with flowers
Dried rose petals and some fine paper from an old magazine

In praise of: the em dash
Robots, you can’t have it

How to stop worrying and love the poem
The robot builds a bomb, with instructions in iambic pentameter

In praise of: this remix of the Beatles and Outkast
Hey yelter skelter
Recent publications
www.post-gazette.comReview: Diving in too deep
What makes a person tie stones to their feet and slip into black water in hopes of acquiring a pearl? Or climb inside a leather-sealed wooden tube to row...
www.post-gazette.comReview: The muses of Andy Warhol
“I find women more interesting than men,” Laurence Leamer told me last month when we caught up. Leamer was in Pittsburgh to promote “Warhol’s...
www.theadroitjournal.orgA Review of Alex Higley’s True Failure
In 1997, during the first wave of a reality TV deluge that remains ongoing, a cast member of MTV’s Road Rules named Holly spoke about the nickname her cast used for the crew: “Big Brother.” Holly s…
www.post-gazette.comReview: Mara Van Der Lugt on the morality of having children
A few years ago, a healthy, professedly happy Mumbai businessman named Raphael Samuel publicly threatened to sue his parents — both lawyers —...
www.artreview.comGenre and the Newer Newness
Danielle Dutton’s ‘Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other’ attempts to galvanize literary art’s sense of perpetual death. What new forms can she offer?
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